In his plan, Mr. Takenaka postponed action on two issues: the nationalization of banks and the practice of counting tax credits as capital.
The system, which Page called PageRank, permitted Brin and Page to improve on the standard practice of counting how often a key word appears on a Web site.
Dorothy Parker in "The Little Hours" scorned the practice of counting sheep to induce sleep: "I really can't be expected to drop everything and start counting sheep at my age.
The Census Bureau has steadfastly resisted calls to end the practice of counting inmates as "residents" of their prisons instead of the cities and towns where they lived and to which they typically return.
Gov. David Paterson of New York took a stand for electoral fairness earlier this month when he signed legislation that bans prison-based gerrymandering — the cynical practice of counting prison inmates as "residents," to pad the size of legislative districts.
On the other, the continued use of am II and eventually the practice of "counting down" to the year 6000 indicates that the same "debates" between apocalyptic prophets of the millennium and concerned clergy continued unabated.
The practice of counting inmates as local "residents" — even though they lack the right to vote — has been used to inflate the power of mainly rural areas where prisons tend to placed.
The New York State Legislature took a stand for electoral fairness last year when it banned prison-based gerrymandering, the cynical practice of counting prison inmates as "residents" to pad the population of legislative districts.
In Daytona Beach, Fla., however, ending the practice of counting the value of in-kind contributions in campaign totals -- a practice that the United Way of America last year vigorously denied existed -- eliminated roughly $400,000 from the campaign results, which fell 18.8percenttoto $3.4 million, said Thomas M. McClelland, the former chairman of the United Way of Volusia-Flagler Counties.
Using the common practice of counting contiguous large blocks as one, market analysts at CB Richard Ellis and Insignia/ESG each report more than a dozen blocks larger than 250,000 square feet are available to lease or sublease -- totaling more than 5 million square feet.
