Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...keep up the spirits of the P.O.W.s, Americans are donning bracelets-some 4,000,000 at last count. Each is a metal band engraved with the name and rank of a serviceman and the date he was taken prisoner or listed as missing in action. The wearer agrees to keep the bracelet on until all 1,783 imprisoned and missing Americans are accounted for and their camps have been inspected by the Red Cross...
...strength back. Berger is waiting for the green light from Fadden and hopes to be able to try the knee out this week in practice to see how it holds up. Fadden has not reached a decision on Berger yet, but Restic cautioned on Monday not "to count Mitch...
London police currently count some 30 gangs of bovver birds, including a quartet that attacked a 55-year-old baker walking home in south London last July. "It was suddenly like having banshees wailing in my ear," the baker recounted. "They kept screaming while two of them took my arms and one jabbed my back with what felt like a knife blade. They made me kneel down with the side of my face against the pavement, and they took everything I had. Then one of them took her foot and crushed my head against the pavement...
...first time in history, we know what form the Met's building will take forever. We can count every cubic foot of space we'll have. So now our policy is refinement rather than expansion. We're trying for zero population growth, weeding out and stabilizing the collection. Our criteria for de-accessioning are much stricter than our criteria for acquisition...
...same misfortune affects some people every time Social Security payouts are increased. But in the past Congress has minimized the damage by directing public officials not to count a portion of the increase when calculating a pensioner's eligibility for other benefits. Such a directive was carefully included in legislation, introduced early this congressional session, that would have raised Social Security payments 5%. But when Senators and Congressmen decided to boost the increase to 20%, they voted the change as an amendment to another bill, and forgot to tack on the directive...