Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nineteen thousand fans held their breath; the count turned...
...Yale 9 5 0 643 2 1/2 Brown 7 6 1 536 4 Pennsylvania 7 9 0 437 5 1/2 Princeton 7 10 1 417 6 Columbia 6 10 0 375 6 1/2 Cornell 2 8 0 .200 7 1/2 Army 3 13 0 .187 9 1/2 *Ties count 1/2 win, 1/2 loss...
...contest with the Rams was one of only seven buttles on the Crimson's 30-game slate that doesn't count in either the Eastern Inter-collegiate Baseball League or the Greater Boston League (GBL) standings. It was also the first time Harvard played a day of baseball without winning at least one game. The squad's four previous losses came in doubleheader splits...
When Indonesian troops launched a full-scale invasion of East Timor--a small island north of Australia--in 1975, the Indonesians knew they could count on tacit United States support. They felt confident that not only would the U.S. play a role in suppressing discussion at the United Nations for this bistant breach of international law, but also continue its military aid to Indonesia. At the time, the stated purpose of the Indonesian invasion of this Portuguese colony was to "stabilize" it and prevent the allegedly leftist liberation front FRETILIN (a Portuguese acronym) from taking over power after the Portuguese...
...cheaters and collect some $5.2 billion this year from the 20 million people who fail to report fully their interest and dividend income. Dole had filibustered gamely against the repeal bill, which was sponsored by Republican Bob Kasten, a freshman Senator from Wisconsin. But Dole last week could count only 27 other Senators (including 24 of 54 Republicans) on his side, and three of them were uncertain. "I went down to the White House," he said, "to see how many they had. They did not have any." So Dole worked out his cave-in compromise with Kasten...