Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Evil Count (Gregroy Meeh) asks the benevolent, absent-minded King (Robin Brecker) what to do about the angry mob at the palace gates...
...What do you suggest?" snaris the Count. "Send out a pastry tray and let them eat cake...
...Explained former State's Attorney Ben Adamowski, a onetime critic who endorsed Daley this time: "When the ship is in trouble, you don't throw an experienced captain overboard." Daley carried 47 of the city's 50 wards, piling up 432,224 votes in the unofficial count to 217,764 for his chief opponent, Independent Democrat William Singer, who was handicapped by his youth (34) and inexperience. Farther behind were black State Senator Richard Newhouse with 58,548 votes and former State's Attorney Edward Hanrahan with 37,034. None of the challengers had the stature...
...called liquidity trap-a situation in which economic activity is so slack that the Federal Reserve is unable to provide stimulus at will. Normally the board controls the money supply indirectly by altering the amount of reserves available to its member banks. The banks are required to count as reserves the cash in their vaults and a certain portion of their demand deposits-mainly checking accounts. They must place the portion of their deposits in non-interest-bearing accounts with the Federal Reserve. The board controls the amount of reserves in the banking system by buying and selling Government securities...
Lighthearted Havoc. Many of the pientrepreneurs were inspired, and some actually franchised, by Manhattan-based Pie-Kill Unlimited, which has twelve operatives, has been in business for a year, and claims a face count of 178. Pie-Kill's manifesto, composed by Founder Rex Weiner, a pastry-faced 24-year-old, reads as if it had been collectively written by P.O. Wodehouse, James Bond and the Three Stooges. "Our high duty," it announces, "is to 1) stamp out pomposity; 2) uphold the virtues of surprise, randomness and chaos; 3) wreak lighthearted havoc whenever and wherever possible...