Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...France conducted a national census that showed the Christians with a slight majority. When Lebanon became independent in 1943, followed by the evacuation of French troops three years later, the preponderance of political power was apportioned between Maronite Christians and Sunni Muslims on the basis of the 1932 head count, with a minimal share of representation for such minority groups as the Druze and the Shi'ite Muslims. In the late 1950s and 1960s, with Lebanon prospering as a Maronite-dominated haven of stability and mercantilism and as the only real parliamentary democracy in the Arab world, its rulers shrewdly...
...more than 5 min., a colossal margin in a race of 24.3 miles. Bertrand was sitting half a mile ahead of Conner when the wind died. There is a time limit of 5 hr. 15 min. on the race, which ran out, and the result did not count. That was bad luck for the Aussies, but their mooted victory came as a needed adrenaline shot at the ebb of their fortunes...
...managed to space his crucial plays, bad and good, so as to leave the momentum with Harvard when it counted. The plays separated the game's three chapters--the first, which Harvard won, 14-0, the second, which Army owned by a 21-0 count, and the last, in which the Crimson sored the final 10 points...
...POOR and need an abortion, don't count on getting any federal aid to help pay for the operation. With the House's approval last week of a law banning the use of federal funds for abortions, the so-called Hyde Amendment is almost certain to win Congressional passage, as it has every year for the past seven. Certainly, Ronald Reagan is not likely to veto the measure...
...sitting around listening to his parents rehash the good old days of labor unionism, perhaps when receiving his first summer job through his union head dad welding iron ore--a bell rings in his head and a credo resounds loud and clear: the only two loyalties in life that count are union and family, and so long as those two pillars of institutionalism remain intact, life will breed security, happiness, and the American dream. So long as no one bucks the system, the blood flows smoothly...