Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration has also tried to exert influence upon him. One White House official telephoned him to say: "John, it's time for a head count." But Rhodes refused to order it because he was determined to avoid arm twisting...
...batch of bills. Once again, he apparently slipped up. Though these bills were dated prior to the deposit, some of them had not been put into circulation until several months later. Thus investigators concluded that Connally and Jacobsen were lying. Confronted with the evidence, Jacobsen pleaded guilty to one count of perjury and started talking...
...witness table when Gesell finished, reached out to steady himself on the back of his chair, then slowly sank down into his seat. Gesell had just sentenced the former White House domestic adviser to three concurrent prison terms of 20 months to five years each-for one count of conspiracy in authorizing the burglary of the office of Daniel Ellsberg's psychiatrist, Dr. Lewis Fielding, and two counts of perjury in testifying before federal grand juries. Ehrlichman will not be eligible for parole until he has served 20 months. He is appealing the verdict...
...days later, John Dean came before Judge John Sirica to be sentenced for the single count of conspiracy hi the Watergate cover-up that he pleaded guilty to last October. Accompanied by his attorney, Charles Shaffer, and Shaffer's wife Susan (Maureen Dean was at home in Los Angeles), Dean placed himself at the mercy of the court: "The only thing I would ask for is your compassion and understanding. I realize to say I am sorry is not enough." After denying Shaffer's request to postpone sentencing until the newly released Watergate tapes could shed more light...
...widespread black markets. There is an Orwellian rip-off on the prices of so-called new products. By making the most minute change in any item-even installing a new car heater -a factory manager can get it classified as new and kick up the price. That does not count as an "increase" because the product theoretically has just come to the market. In the Soviet Union, the latest model Volga car costs $12,170, about 68% more than its predecessor, though only an engineer could see the difference...