Word: counting
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...abolishing the all-or-nothing electoral system in each state and making it instead a proportional reflection of the popular vote, many Republicans thought that they could for the first time expect supporters and the beginning of a real two-party system in the Solid South. Similarly, Democrats could count on picking up an electoral vote or two in rock-ribbed Vermont and Maine. But Southern Democrats had something else in mind: such minority groups as the Negroes-often the Democratic margin of victory in Northern states-would be less important in party councils. The amendment would sharply reduce...
...high incomes plus the present popularity of donating money for specialized uses such as cancer or heart disease, the schools must make up their debits by unhealthy deficit financing. The only schools which are able to keep their ledger anywhere near balanced are the State schools which can count on a certain amount of tax money each year...
This confusion points up a still larger problem. The emphasis in the college is on final examinations. In some cases they count for almost an entire course grade. No matter how well he learns the course material, the man who cannot write a good blue-book cannot get good marks. This is especially true in Social Relations, and the field of History, Government, and Economics, two of the largest fields of concentration...
...sell Toronto's Ford soon. If such quick changes were bewildering to Sheraton stockholders, they had also proved profitable: in the chain's last fiscal year ending in April 1949, Henderson had boosted the net from $1.6 million to $3.3 million after taxes. At the latest count, he figured his Sheraton Corp. had 31 hotels in 26 cities. His pride: Manhattan's Park Sheraton, on which he had just spent $500,000 remodeling, and which boasted a 99% occupancy. "The money spent," says Henderson, "brings back returns. We can have our cake...
Toss May Not Count...