Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City's near miss in 1975 does not count as a default, at least technically, because the city secured moratoriums on short-term interest payments until it could again start paying its creditors. If the Big Apple had defaulted, it would have been slightly ahead of Whoops' record, at $2.4 billion...
Convicted in Putnam County on 28 counts of land-sale irregularities, plus one count of failing to appear for his trial, Jaffe, now 58, was sentenced to 35 years. Florida legal observers were astonished at the severity of his sentence, especially since no one else has ever been charged under the 1963 state statute...
...substance and shape to the world's most protean political and cultural organism. The standardization of urban skylines, the mailing of the suburbs and monotoning of news barely begin to smooth out the stubborn differences that define each region of the country. Pennsylvanian Peirce and North Dakotan Hagstrom count eight discrete sections: Mid-Atlantic, New England, Great Lakes, Border South, Deep South, Great Plains, Mountain, and Pacific, which includes Alaska, an area so large that it embraces four time zones...
Americans are still the world's most restless people. California, Florida and Texas have attracted enough newcomers to account for 42% of the U.S. population growth during the 1970s. Nevada's head count increased nearly 65%, making it the fastest-growing state. The lure, of course, is gambling, which employs almost one-third of the desolate territory's inhabitants. Nevadans have other dubious distinctions. They have the highest incidence of alcoholism and a suicide rate more than double the national average. There is also Lake Tahoe, whose commercial development the authors call "the most appalling assault...
...French nuclear force cannot fail to be taken into consideration," Marchais argued. "How can we believe it is possible to say to the Americans, 'In case of mishap you can depend on us,' and then say to the Soviets, 'You do not have the right to count us, neither on one side or the other...