Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...count the number of animal-to-human transplants on one hand and they have all been totally hopeless...
Waldorf was arraigned on two counts of assault with a dangerous weapon--one for each person who allegedly was threatened--and one count each of possession of burglarious tools, attempted larceny of a motor vehicle, and malicious destruction of property, according to court records...
Reagan will probably be forced to recognize the pressure of women, but not as a dogmatic group, rather as individuals displaying talents hitherto unused. Both women in the outgoing Senate were Republicans, so were nine Representatives, so were two Cabinet members (three if you count Jeane Kirkpatrick, at best a nominal Democrat...
...California, once a winner-take-all state, no candidate now runs statewide-and no one yet knows by how many votes Hart whipped Mondale in the Democratic primary. In Texas a voter must vote once on Saturday morning and once more in the evening to have his vote count for local delegates, who will then be mysteriously manipulated up the ladder of layered caucuses for a final choice. One could go on to more outlandish and contradictory rules, laws, regulations. This unworkable system leaves both the parties and the candidates prey to local and hard-bitten pressure groups, from...
Having won the hearts and minds of the voters, could Ronald Reagan also count on their giving him a House of Representatives with which he might feel comfortable? In the Republicans' year of optimism, many of their leaders had expected a happy answer. "If the tide is strong enough," Michigan's Guy Vander Jagt, chairman of the House Republican campaign committee, had predicted, "we could get 33 seats." A pickup of 30 G.O.R seats, agreed Illinois' Robert Michel, the House Republican leader, was "not unrealistic." The presidential tide turned out to be powerful indeed. Nonetheless, the Republicans...