Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Hines' office recently compiled statistics on the city's homeless and their condition during January. Their statistics put Cambridge's homeless count at more than 100 persons the majority men. Each night in January, the city's three shelters were filled to capacity, and each night latecomers were referred to other locations such as the Pine St. Inn in Boston...
...self-conscious "Liberal" Abramowitz misses is better off dead) Eliot has one advantage. We don't fade in to the gray background of future campaign aides, Senate staffers, and Post editors crowding other Houses--and the Crimson--sort of like "snow" on a TV set. We can count on engaging in arguments with intelligent, thoughtful people who happen to be conservatives. Not all voted for Reagan to protect daddy's horse farm. This insulting stereotype is bad enough by itself, but when it is promulgated in the pages of the The Harvard Crimson a great wrong has been committed. This...
Bureaucrats had been alarmed over the new rules governing party organization that Khrushchev had virtually imposed. City and regional officials were to have more frequent elections and a tenure of no more than six years. Nothing could have disturbed functionaries more. They could no longer count on a sinecure as a lifelong career...
...long afterward, I joined the party for very practical reasons: without the right political credentials I would not get party and KGB approval for promotions or assignments abroad. I cannot count the hours I spent in party organization meetings in the ministry, listening to or delivering dull reports on doctrinal matters or on the foibles and failings of other "comrades." As a rule, the pettier the subject, the longer the discussion...
...next generation. At the finale, the author asks his two-year-old son Justin, "What's new?" The child replies "with perfect accuracy, for him, 'Everything!' " Irony does not intrude. There are other differences between Lance and Justin and their predecessors, but this is the one that will count, the chief...