Word: counts
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...million, up 11% over 1970. Most states in the North and Midwest had increases below the national average. The two regions will lose an estimated 16 seats to the West and South when the census is used to reapportion the 1982 Congress. If, that is, the troubled head count is ever finished. A fire in Brooklyn destroyed New York returns; a recount is under way. A federal judge in Detroit has ordered adjustments for alleged undercounts there. The Justice Department asked the Supreme Court last week to set aside the judge's order so that the 1980 census...
...government, which needs to prove its toughness to Moscow. But the alliance between workers and dissidents, even if temporary, gives the dissidents a kind of protective coloration. "We won't allow for any crackdown, particularly on KOR," Walesa told TIME. "They are our friends and they can always count...
...their stories before trial, and damaging testimony expected in the Felt-Miller proceedings never materialized. Gray called the prosecution "malicious" and said he might sue the Government to recover his six-figure legal fees and to get compensation for the harm he has suffered. He, Felt and Miller can count on some aid from an ex-agents' organization that has raised more than $1 million to pay their lawyers' bills...
...What really annoys me is this attitude many people have that your life doesn't count if you don't have a successful job, you're not married or are not physically attractive. There's a cheapness about the value of human life in our society that often shows itself in the way many folks treat handicapped people." These are sharp words, especially coming from a young woman who is a successful commercial artist, a bestselling author and the star of a two-hour, $2 million film version of her life that is being shown...
...Reagan readily took to his nickname because he felt that Ronald was "a bit on the sissy side." So, should we call him Dutch? Dutch and Mommie? Granted, this is not the sort of problem that has the country's big thinkers in a tizzy, but perhaps nicknames count for more than they appear to. Harry Truman was lucky enough to have his given name sound like a nickname, so as President he had more than a nominal advantage. President Carter, on the other hand, strode into history on the announcement, "My name is Jimmy Carter...