Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...revelry and reminiscing--especially the development office. This year's event cost the University $600,000 but brought in more than $6 million from thankful members of the Class of '58. The next major milestones are at 35 and 50. Even after you reach your golden anniversary, don't count on Harvard losing track of you. Alumni records are so complete that they keep up to date a list of the 15 oldest living College grads. According to officials. Charles W. Stark '03, whose son this year came back for his Harvard 50th, recently inherited the title. Erskine Wood...
Just over a year ago, the Conservative Party was trailing in the polls, and Mrs. Thatcher languished a poor third in the count by party leaders. The government then dispatched a task force to fight a war in the Falklands; whereupon Thatcher's popularity soared, and the Conservative Party has now been swept back to power. This is a terrifying lesson to give to the leaders of the world...
...said before the match that would have brought her to a tenth singles final, "but then I realized that I didn't care what the public thought or anyone thought-I still wanted to play tennis. And I'm going to make every moment count now. It's near...
...first signs are small, puzzling and all too easy to dismiss. For Chicago Journalist Charles Leroux, it was his mother's diminishing ability to manage her checkbook and count change. For Frank Holmes, a retired Boston businessman, it was the wild spending sprees by his once prudent wife and her increasing tendency to garble phone messages. For Eleanor Zimmerlein, an Illinois farmer's wife, it was the decline in the quality of her husband's handiwork: "Suddenly the row of shingles he'd put on the roof would be crooked, and he couldn...
...entomologists acknowledge, no one can get an accurate scientific count of mosquito populations. Nor does the plague seem to be universal. In Illinois and Indiana, wasps and bees are beginning to appear in large numbers, but residents in those states, as well as in some Mid-Atlantic areas, are enjoying a summer relatively free of mosquitoes. In New England, California and sections of the South, however, heavy rains have left pools of standing water in which the larvae of mosquitoes have flourished. Entomologist Jon Turmel of the Vermont department of agriculture cites a simple personal test. He rolls...