Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...when Harvard graduate students could automatically count on getting jobs at the top-prestige universities are over," says Theda Skocpol, assistant professor of Sociology and director of placement for the department. "But," she adds, "there still are university jobs and good college jobs available to just about everybody...
...forced the establishment of a Senate select committee to review several hundred contested ballots, Durkin opposed efforts to have the first election voided and a new special election declared, preferring to cast his lot with the Democratic majority in the Senate, and on the committee. Since the first vote count in New Hampshire after the election had shown him the winner, though only by ten votes, this was not an unreasonable position; after all, winning by a little is still winning, as Lyndon Johnson proved in 1948. But when it became apparent that the condition of many of the ballots...
Throughout the Western world, he will perhaps be best remembered for his appearance before the League of Nations in Geneva on June 30, 1936. His country had been overrun by the Blackshirt battalions of Benito Mussolini, whose son-in-law, Count Ciano, ecstatically described the beauty of "bombs opening like red blossoms" upon the Ethiopian highlands. Hundreds of thousands of his barefoot soldiers had been killed by Fascist bombs and mustard gas. A small, bearded, hawk-faced figure with blazing black eyes, he stood at the lectern and declared: "I am here today to claim the justice that...
...Duke) Tafari Makonne. The son of the governor of Harar province in eastern Ethiopia, Tafari was distantly related to Emperor Menelik II and was educated at the court in Addis Ababa. After Menelik's death in 1913, the nobility decided that the Emperor's grandson, Lij (Count) Hasu, was too dissolute to take over the throne. They installed Hasu's mother Zauditu, as Empress, and chose Tafari to be her regent and heir to the throne...
...Those who are discontented with the present are apt to have selective memories of a better past and forget, what went with it- the petty tyrannies that were possible in office, factory or domestic household, where one could lose his job at an employer's whim and could count on few if any benefits if given the sack. But those who in their own lives have since gained by shorter hours, better quarters, safer conditions and coffee breaks have also lost something when they in turn become customers and consumers: a decline in store manners and helpfulness, clothes...