Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Handlin includes a string of essays for the new historian on how to deal with evidence more carefully: how to read a word, count a number and so on. He cites an under current of feeling in historical writing call "faction," a bungling combination of fact and fiction. For the '70s, faction appears to be in vogue...
...China's governing institutions with his supporters: on the eve of the anniversary, twelve elderly victims of the Cultural Revolution were elevated to the Central Committee while two other longtime Deng allies, Peng Zhen, 77, and Zhao Ziyang, 61, were added to the select Politburo. Deng could thus count on the loyalty of 19 of the 29 members of China's top ruling body...
...Boston heavies--issued pre-caucus alibis. "I'll lose caucus, Ted says," screamed the Miami News a few days ago. "Its an exhibition game between a pro team and a pickup team with no captain, no quarterback and no jerseys," Kennedy's own chief adviser insisted, "It doesn't count in the league standings." Meanwhile, pro-Kennedy radio spots, kept flooding the Miami airwaves...
...BEST GUESS RIGHT NOW is that Kennedy will nab between 35 and 40 per cent of the delegates selected. Even if Kennedy wins today Carter can still count on the vast majority of the officially picked representatives. But the slim Carter victory that most predict may still be "perceived" was a loss. The president's political ship is slowly sinking. Any less than a landslide in the once-secure South could spell media doom for the man from Georgia...
Bringing Economics in line then, will require major dental work. According to the phone-relayed statistics on the Economics tutorial program, only 28 of the 41 full-time Faculty members available to teach tutorials are doing so. The legislation allows professors to count senior thesis advising as a tutorial, and not surprisingly all 28 professors are fulfilling their tutorial responsibilities by advising a senior, a task which they perceive as the least time-consuming of the tutorial options. Bowersock points out that not all professors choose to direct theses for the time they could save. Some believe their time...