Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...including guns, pistols, bayonets and knives. They found no trace of Cross and Laporte, but messages received from both hostages earlier in the week had indicated that they were then alive and safe. "Decide about my life or death," Laporte wrote to Quebec's Premier Robert Bourassa. "I count on you and thank...
...Deficit. Added to an earlier report that unemployment in September rose to 5.5%, the highest rate since January 1964, the figures trace a pattern of recovery that is weaker than the Administration had hoped. By latest count, 4,300,000 Americans are out of work, up from 2,700,000 in the month that President Nixon took office. There is reason for concern, too, 'about whether the latest statistics indicate any strong business revival ahead...
...Private railroaders consider this idea ludicrous, and predict that Railpax will be forced to turn to Congress for more subsidy within a year or two. Even if their freight operations are included, the much-admired nationalized railroads of Western Europe and Japan run deeply in the red. Railpax backers count on managerial innovations to entice more riders aboard trains. The average passenger may find conditions much the same for a considerable time. Railpax will pay the private railroads to operate its trains; they will run over the same bumpy tracks and be manned by the same surly crews that have...
...then Brel expands the metaphor to include all the many little rapes that a totalitarian world performs on the innocents who wander through it. The victim admits that, as much as he hates the system's inevitability, he must count himself among its damned...
...companies which have sought to racage the open northern portions of the state. Stevens, on the other hand, takes the stand that the oil companies will bring money and jobs into the underdeveloped portions of the state. Give the lead to Stevens, but don't count...