Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what of unpredictable moves by the people who make the rules? Despite batteries of computers and mountains of probability charts, Nomad did not count on the sudden defection of its most important employee, Carl Lundquist. An aging social scientist, Lundquist knows all the secrets and strategies of Nomad. He also combines the stature of a Vardis Fisher mountain man with Gunnar Myrdal's scholarship, Saul Alinsky's cogs-and-wheels knowledge of the impoverished and disaffected, and Walt Whitman's passion for undeodorized reality. As a cantankerous, outspoken symbol of the unindexed human spirit, Lundquist...
...event which did not count in the team standings, Harvard's freshman medley relay team led almost the entire race only to lose by a narrow margin to Fordham. Marcel Philippe hung right behind the Crimson's Dave Elliott in the mile leg then started a kick that Elliot failed to match...
...last count, Yale had won 65 dual meets in a row, which is 64 more than Harvard's current streak. The Elis have downed both, Dartmouth and Princeton-teams that have beaten the Crimson-without too much strain, and their thoughts now are on the AAU Championships...
...changes in the exam traditionally required of all English concentrators at the end of their junior year. Students now will be allowed to substitute a course in one of the three areas covered by the exam for the corresponding section in the exam, and the exam no longer will count toward the average that determines the honors with which an English student graduates...
About $7 billion of the gap between the two measures represented dollars repatriated to this country by foreign branches of U.S. banks to help beat the credit squeeze. These funds count as part of the "liquidity" deficit because they will have to be paid back. Even so, the huge liquidity deficit did not cause the tremors on foreign exchange markets that lesser deficits did only a few years ago. Reason: the dollar is stronger now than it has been in many years, partly because the whole international monetary situation has become more stable. The U.S. gold stock rose last year...