Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...until week's end did Guyanese authorities report that they had miscounted the bodies. Instead of 409, as first related, the count was about 900. U.S. embassy officials confirmed the discrepancy, attributing it at first to the finding of many children's bodies underneath the piles of others. The State Department later explained more plausibly that additional bodies had been found in outlying buildings?but failed to explain why those buildings had not been searched earlier...
...sluggishness is the decline of three basic industries?steel, textiles and shipbuilding?that provide 4.3 million European jobs. Many companies in these ailing sectors have grown too unwieldy and inefficient to compete in a changing world. To survive, they must shrink, evolve and innovate. Says West German Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff: "There is no reason for losing our heads, but the seriousness of the situation is not to be underrated...
...fall, and they must borrow money, not to invest in new techniques and equipment but merely to keep the factories turning. "If a small-or medium-size enterprise runs into temporary cash problems," says De Bodinat, "chances are it will go bankrupt. But a big, dying industry can generally count on government subsidies. This is the opposite of survival of the fittest. It is maintaining dinosaurs while killing off the mammals...
...good can a college football team be and still not rank No. 1 in the nation? Let Penn State count the ways. It has had 27 consecutive winning seasons and 40 straight years at .500 or better (both modern N.C.A.A. records). Its coach of 13 years, Joe Paterno, boasts the highest winning percentage (.833) of anyone still sending in signals after ten years of major college football warfare, including three unbeaten and untied seasons capped by victories in a major bowl...
...antiseptic anteroom of an urban purgatory. A cubistic formation of white, black, lucite and chrome, the room suggests that a fashionable decorator has just made a hasty exit. The people E.L. Doctorow assembles here, in his first play, are upper-middle-class professionals and old friends whose blood count has been lowered by civilization...