Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Minority students are also treated a little differently, though they don't get the same kind of outright preference that an alumnus' child receives. There are no quotas or target figures, though officials keep a close count on the number of minority students in the class...
...Though the Soviet press has not directly mentioned the size of this year's shortfall or of grain purchases from abroad, it is filled with complaints about the troubles of farmers. Many articles lament the woeful state of Soviet farm machinery and the lack of spares. By one count, 450 harvesters in three Novosibirsk districts alone are laid up at present for want of parts. Krokodil, the satirical weekly, recently ran a cartoon showing a farm worker running a lottery to get a spare part for his thresher. Pravda complained that harvesters manufactured at the Krasnoyarsk plant in Siberia...
...sizable proportion of it came from Seagram's. Until his death in 1971, Sam insisted that there was never a direct funnel between himself and speakeasies in the U.S., and he once dismissed the question by observing, "I never went on the other side of the border to count the empty Seagram bottles...
Seventy-eight years have passed since Bram Stoker dredged him from the velvet underground of Victorian sexual repression. The authentic apocalypse of war, the real specter of deprivation, should have exorcised this titled vampire long ago. Instead, Count Dracula has become the Western world's most durable ghoul. There are Dracula dolls, songs, comic books and histories-proving the existence of a 15th century tyrant dubbed Dracul (dragon). Vampire movies have been made almost since the dawn of cinema and, according to Editor Leonard Wolf, there are now more than 200 Draculoid film titles, ranging from the silent Nosferatu...
Nevertheless, not many of the Count's constituents have ever bothered to read Stoker's epistolary novel. They are missing an authentic, if somewhat creaky treat. The story of the elegant old party, traveling from Transylvania to London in search of fresh plasma, was silly when it was written and is silly still...