Word: counts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deepest sense, pride in ancestry or place cannot mitigate the individual's task of coping and making do. In the still-valid American tradition - the reason immigrants came here in the first place - it is not the roots that count so much as the branches and the leaves...
...Count no man happy, said the Greeks, until he is dead. Or a family, Brooke Hayward adds, in this intense, absorbing tale of her own. On Daughter Brooke's account sheet, the story of the Haywards is not so much tragic as it is sad. They were not visited by terrible events like poverty, disease, or accident: they invited unhappiness, as casually and as carelessly as they might invite a tiresome guest to a garden party; eventually they were seduced by its dark and terrible charm...
...grounds that I have no control over the results. When a reporter called on Thursday evening to inquire about the actions of the CRR during my chairmanship in 1975, I broke my rule, since it seemed that only straightforward facts were involved, which I could at least count on being accurately recorded...
During the first five years of this decade, the placid community of Santa Barbara on Southern California's Pacific Coast witnessed nearly zero population growth. The head count of residents over the period increased a scant .58% and today stands at 72,500. Santa Barbarans have decided they like it that way. Last week they overwhelmingly approved a local proposition requiring voter approval of any city council moves that would allow the population to rise above 85,000. The referendum, as one resident put it, offered Santa Barbarans a chance "to vote on how big they want this seaside...
None of Mrs. Gandhi's measures has caused more resentment than the government's campaign to encourage sterilization in order to curb India's disastrous population explosion. According to one official count, this ambitious birth-control program resulted in more than 7 million vasectomies throughout India last year. In the town of Amethi in Uttar Pradesh, where Mrs. Gandhi's son Sanjay is running for a parliamentary seat, villagers told Malkin that they had taken to sleeping in the fields to avoid being picked up and sterilized, which many of them seemed to equate with castration...