Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Organizations Act. Originally passed by Congress in 1970 to combat organized crime, RICO is increasingly being used as a battering ram against the clubby defenses of financial institutions. Because it allows prosecutors to seize all assets -- including homes, salaries and pensions -- of those indicted, many people facing a RICO count offer to inform on their former colleagues in exchange for leniency. Last week Anton Valukas, the U.S. Attorney who supervised the 2 1/2-year probe, advised both Chicago exchanges that if the RICO-charged traders are convicted, the prosecution intends to lay claim to their membership seats, a $7.5 million prize...
...taped to "I'm long gone, George" notes left on breakfast tables. It is dire stuff, whose thesis is that in normal, modern two-career marriages, most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, food shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...book tells the hard truth: most men -- even those who talk equality -- do not really do much child rearing, cooking, cleaning, shopping, or enough other chores to count...
...addition, Independent Mayor Alfred E. Vellucci, who has functioned as a political party unto himself for the last 38 years, has also decided not to seek re-election. While Vellucci supports a progressive, pro-tenant agenda, CCA councillors quickly learn that it is never safe to count on his vote...
...Communist Party in a coalition government. But first he must get his own allies in line. Without a rival candidate, Jaruzelski required only a simple majority to be elected, a sure thing if all 299 Deputies belonging to the Communist coalition threw their weight behind him. The final count showed that eleven Communist alliance Deputies had broken ranks and that the general owed his election to maneuvering by a handful of Solidarity deputies...