Word: recounting
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Still, not all Western delegations were happy with that compromise and the MacBride report itself had moved one British speaker to recount the story of the Anglican curate who sits down to breakfast with his bishop and finds an obviously bad egg on his plate. When the bishop offers to replace it, the curate, trying not to offend his host, protests: "Oh no, my lord. I do assure you, it is excellent in parts." The Western press may likewise find the new information order, as UNESCO seems likely to serve it up, good only in parts-and hence unpalatable...
Twenty Massachusetts cities including Boston and Cambridge filed suit together yesterday to force a recount of the 1980 census, because officials said they fear the population decreases reported threaten federal funding and state representation...
...response to the 1980 census--which indicated that Cambridge's population had fallen from more than 100,000 to below 95,000' state officials said yesterday Cambridge may join about 20 other Massachusetts cities in a suit to force a recount...
...Great Depression and ended with an elegy for 133 voices and continuo. For his new volume, American Dreams: Lost and Found, Terkel has abandoned any attempt at doctrine. There is only, he admits, "in the manner of a jazz work, an attempt, of theme and improvisation, to recount dreams, lost and found, and a recognition of possibility...
Demands for a recount...