Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though Bork supporters and opponents quibbled over the precise Senate head count, even the most optimistic estimates for Bork fell at least eight votes short of a majority. At week's end many liberals and conservatives who had fought fiercely over the nomination since July were finally in agreement on the outcome of the battle: Robert Bork will not serve on the Supreme Court. "I think ((the Administration)) will have to withdraw the nomination," declared California Democrat Alan Cranston, the Senate majority whip. Conceded Kevin Phillips, a conservative political analyst: "I don't see that they have any choice...
...that whole wall. People say, 'Oh, my God!' " But the diagram becomes a road map. You can use it to figure out that a two-week delay at Step 16 is going to cost $100,000. The alternative is to wing it, which can get expensive -- especially if you count the $287 coffee breaks...
Senate Minority Leader Bob Dole of Kansas admitted after the White House meeting that "we are still short a few according to my count" of the 100-member Senate...
...classroom the city wasn't integrated, and people didn't want it to be. Most cultural and historical places I visited after work drew either whites or blacks, seldom both. And when I did see an integrated place, Blacks were with Blacks and whites with whites; I could count the mixed groups I saw on one hand...
...declining pool of high school graduates. Last week a preliminary survey of 64 schools, conducted by the Women's College Coalition, showed that the number of entering freshmen this semester has risen an average of 6.6% above last year, with some notable peaks around the academic landscape. The head count at California's Mills College is up 20%; freshman enrollment at the College of New Rochelle in New York has jumped from 92 to 144. At Bryn Mawr in Pennsylvania, early-admissions applications increased 50% to help make the freshman class of 345 the biggest in the school...