Since then, a woman in her early 20s killed herself with pills, and scores more young people have tried to kill themselves — a total of 144 so far this year, at doctors' best count; the computer used for recordkeeping was down for six weeks.
By 11 20AM today, we still had no idea know which presidential candidate won Florida and Miami-Dade was still "doing [their] best" counting another 20,000 absentee ballots. .
"People try to beat out a neighboring circle or better their own best count," Mr. Rogers said.
Trump changes his mind like it's the weather and tells a lie every five minutes, going by Politico's best count.
She is part of a national network of statisticians producing the US government's best count yet of people killed by police, under a program known as the arrest-related deaths (ARD) count.
By that act, she is interfering with the rights of millions of Americans to see the contest between Mr. Bush and Mr. Gore decided by the best count available under imperfect circumstances.
Not only do you have a host of admirers hanging on your moves (and the boss watching), you'd best count on someone on whom you're relying to flake out over the next two weeks.
"The parade will furnish the best count of noses I can think of, much better than the passing of resolutions, or the writing of letters to Representatives in Congress," Walker told the New York Times.
The best counts America currently has of killings by police are the work of activists and journalists – online databases like Fatal Encounters, Facebook compilations like Killed By Police, or Operation Ghetto Storm, which estimates that one African American is killed by police, security guards or vigilantes at least "every 28 hours".
But if you pay for the whole clan to take a $5,000-a-head luxury cruise, you'd best count that against your annual exclusion.
