Word: counted
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Having just finished another run into Boston, this one to the Sheraton, Arthur, once again, heads back towards Harvard. Pausing at a stop-light, he takes the wad of bills from his tee-shirt pocket and begins to count. "That brings me up to almost $120. Jesus, some guys'll sit around at Harvard all night. They'll go up to North Cambridge, and they'll only pull in about $50. Like, I wouldn't go up to anyone tonight and tell him how much I've made, 'cause it would cause a stink...
Government lawyers contended that the Census Bureau, which acknowledges that in 1970 it overlooked 5.3 million people, about 2.5% of the U.S. population, had spent more than $1 billion on advertising and other efforts to make the 1980 count more accurate. They added that adjusting the figures as demanded by Detroit and other cities would cause the bureau to miss the Jan. 1 deadline set by Congress for reporting the count...
...more importance to him was Detroit's persuasive case that its citizens had been undercounted, which he said "gives rise to a constitutional violation of the one-person, one-vote principle." He ordered the bureau to produce a "statistically defensible" method within 30 days to correct the count. Barabba is considering whether to urge the Justice Department to appeal the decision. But just in case, he set associates to work on finding a way to carry out the order...
...coach Joe Restic knows, that will be a tall order indeed. He will have to count on his increasingly-feared front of Justin Whittington, Tim Palmer, Chuck Durst and Dave Otto for a strong pass rush all afternoon, because the Harvard secondary has proved suspect, especially in clutch situations. However well the defense plays, Restic knows Army will put points on the board...
Coach George Ford instituted a 4-3-3 line-up in place of the usual 4-4-2, choosing to put some added offensive pressure on the UMass goal. The strategy worked, but only if you count absolute numbers of shots as an indication of a team's offensive firepower...