Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...East) is his special event. Possibly America's craziest--if not most dangerous--sport, bull riding tests the gut-level courage of the contestants as they climb onto the back of three-quarters of a ton of enraged beefsteak and try to hang on for an eight second count. Doug has managed a couple of times to go the full count, and that's no small accomplishment...
...confesses: "I'm a little bit scared of the future." Still, Norway's variant of socialism stands a good chance of thriving-if only because of potential benefits of North Sea oil. Like the petro-socialists in Libya, Iraq and Algeria, Norway's Labor Party can count on bankrolling its welfare measures with its oil earnings. This is a route to democratic socialism which few other societies have the luxury of imitating...
...expect. Many Hungarians worry about their political future. Says one writer: "Sometimes when I wake up pessimistic in the morning, I wonder what will happen after Kádár. The problem is that you cannot make him into an institution." Perhaps the only thing that Hungarians can count on is that Communism will continue to rule their lives, and that whoever rules the party dares not risk offending Moscow. The Soviets keep 90,000 troops encamped on Magyar soil...
Another problem is price. According to Iranian Premier Jamshid Amouzegar, LNG costs five to six times as much to ship as oil. And that does not count the formidable expense of conversion and storage terminals; the terminal at Cove Point cost $370 million. Algerian gas costs $2.37 per 1,000 cu. ft. to deliver to East Coast users; Indonesian LNG will cost, $3.42 delivered in California...
...Kelly just enjoys swimming, that glory and records are not what she is after. She likes the challenge, the new strategy that a race brings. "Each race is so different," she says. The 200-yd. freestyle is almost an all-out sprint while in the 1650--a mile--"I count laps. After 500 yards, I just start thinking about keeping my stroke together. It begins to hurt so much...