Word: count
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...bruising zealotry of some N.R.A. members has begun to hurt their cause. California used to be the kind of place that the N.R.A. could count on. A typical police chief was Daryl Gates of Los Angeles, who liked to urge law- abiding citizens to keep a gun at home. Many Californians needed no such urging. In a 1982 referendum, the state's voters clobbered a ballot measure that would have banned the sale of handguns and required those already held to be registered...
...count?" Blades rejoins. "You owe me. What are we going...
...rest of the world, though, could be forgiven for suspecting that concern for the welfare of Panamanians weighed lightly in America's thinking about the invasion. The lack of interest, for example, in the Panamanian civilian death count has been shocking. The New York Times and Washington Post ran hundreds ^ of articles on aspects of the invasion. You would have thought that even the fact of uncertainty and confusion about the numbers, which were known to be in the hundreds, would be worth an article or two. But the first article addressing itself primarily to civilian casualties appeared on page...
...Americans. Add 314 Panamanian troops, and Panama's loss in a couple of days is equivalent to America's during the entire Viet Nam War. Yet compare the American press's indifference to Panamanian deaths with its lavish emphasis on -- and, it seems, exaggeration of -- the death count in Rumania...
...size of the AIDS epidemic is significantly smaller than originally projected. Since 1986, the Federal Government has claimed that as many as 1.5 million Americans were infected with the incurable virus. The number soon to be announced will be around 1 million, and some Government officials suggest that the count could be as low as 650,000. Also, the rate of new infections in New York City, Los Angeles and San Francisco is at last slowing. "In retrospect," says the CDC report, those earlier estimates, "based upon limited data available at the time, were too high...