Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wilson, who had left for the U.S. Senate. In 16 months Hedgecock formed a broad-based political coalition in a traditionally conservative city, and was considered a shoo-in for election to a full four-year term this November. But last week a county grand jury returned a 15-count felony indictment against the mayor and three of his closest political backers...
...still going to count on the ground game," the Harvard quarterback adds, "but not quite as much...
...liberal Congressman Tom Harkin. Jepsen, regarded by many as pompous, was badly hurt by the revelation that seven years ago he had visited a Des Moines sex club. Harkin has lately been running ahead of Jepsen in the polls, but observers warn that it is still too early to count the Republican out. For one thing, the influential Des Moines Register, which has hardly been a Jepsen sympathizer in the past, urged voters to disregard the sex-club peccadillo and focus on the issues...
...Party Leader Edward Broadbent dubbed them "MasterCard and Visa." Both candidates, for example, pledged to cut the government's deficit of $23 billion and increase defense spending. At times the only real squabble between them seemed to be how many promises Mulroney had made; by Turner's count, the Tory had made 338. One Liberal TV ad featured a shopping cart crammed with packages at a cash register; the items were labeled "Tory promises," but none carried prices...
...former Anglican. His T.S.P.M. has had an uphill struggle in seeking to regain control of Chinese Protestantism, a battle complicated by a woefully small number of church buildings to accommodate worshipers. The T.S.P.M. estimates there are 3 million Protestants in the country, about the same number as the official count of Catholics. But the respected Chinese Church Research Center in Hong Kong claims that house-church members swell the Protestant total to 30 million or more. Privately, some Chinese officials say the figure is closer to 20 million...