Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kohl, the problem comes at an awkward moment. In December, Economics Minister Count Otto Lambsdorff was charged with engineering a huge tax break for the Flick industrial conglomer ate in return for contributions to his Free Democrat Party. Kohl promised that Lambsdorff would resign if the case goes to trial. Even if Worner can prove his allegations, he too faces mounting pressure to resign. The loss of either minister would bring a shake-up in Kohl's moderate-right coalition government...
...full house in Oakland in 1982 and made it stick after two trials against the league, the city has been trying to condemn the team-everyone condemns this team-and take over under the laws of eminent domain. Meanwhile the Raiders are in Los Angeles and starting to count over 90,000 patrons in the Coliseum, where Davis has not yet signed a long-term lease. For now, damages of some $35 million are owed the Raiders by the other 27 teams. Speaking for his players and himself, he says, "We don't take what the defense gives...
Through these and other deals, Rock has amassed a personal fortune estimated to be at least $200 million. Rock does not talk about his wealth, saying only, "I don't like people to count my money. That isn't what turns...
...Andropov remained invisible, his hand was very evident in the Kremlin's business last week. With one stroke, he strengthened his position on the ruling Politburo by increasing the number of voting members from eleven to 13, the highest count since October 1982. The two new men, presumed to be Andropov supporters, had been blocked from advancing further in their careers under Leonid Brezhnev. Andropov also promoted an old KGB comrade to candidate membership in the party council and gave greater authority to a like-minded technocrat on the Central Committee Secretariat. Andropov's address to the party...
...conspiracy at the highest levels of military intelligence" to underreport enemy troop strength in the months before the 1968 Tet offensive, in order to persuade other officials, and the public, that victory was in sight. Westmoreland says there was no conspiracy but a debate within Government over whether to count sympathizers as part of enemy forces. To support his position, Westmoreland last week submitted the 5 Ibs. of documents as evidence in a New York federal court. Sworn statements from Viet Nam-era officials, including Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, Secretary of State Dean Rusk, CIA Director Richard Helms...