Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...transferring White House men to key department and agency posts. It was Strachan who startled the Ervin committee by advising young people who were considering government work: "Stay away." He is charged with conspiracy, obstruction of justice, and one count of lying to a grand jury...
...think it is going to be a dogfight for first between Princeton, NC State and us," Harvard coach Ray Essick said on Sunday. "In meets like this you just can't count on dual meet records," he said, referring to Harvard's 82-31 shellacking of the Tigers last month...
Despite their crude attempts to throw potential detractors off-guard, Magnum Force's Ted Post and The Seven-Ups' Phil D'Antoni, as well as The Laughing Policeman's Stuart Rosenberg, are interested mainly in zapping their audiences. Force's liberal apologia count for naught when the director's only feeling is for carnage (a man's head getting shorn by a girder, or a pimp choking a whore with Draino). And The Seven-Ups' story of mixed roots in Little Italy--strong Buddy grows up to be a cop, while his weak friend Vito turns crook--is naturalism used...
These are so rare that they count among nature's most valuable freaks. Indeed, prices for drilling rights around P. G. & E.'s plant have soared from 20? an acre a decade ago to the almost $1,360 an acre that Shell Oil recently committed itself...
...Japan, Ken Hashimoto, another polygraph expert, discovered that his cactus could count and add up to 20. George De La Warr, a British engineer, insisted that young plants grew better if their "mother" were kept alive. Ironically, the authors did not address themselves to some significant facts about botany. Plants do respond physiologically to certain sound waves. Talking to a plant may indeed make it healthier, because it thrives on the carbon dioxide exhaled by the speaker...