Now, with the Internet, you can get an email that says what the pollen count is in your area every day.
The Lions' resources were already stretched in certain positions coming into this game, and their body count threatened to be diminished at almost every collision in the opening quarter.
"Every vote is going to count in this election, and it will be a close race, " said Bridget Welsh, a professor at Singapore Management University and a longtime observer of Malaysian politics.
Baseball and poker players spend lots of time picking up signs, moving into position and working the count, but every once in a while, they have to step up to the plate and come through.
"John Kerry and I made a promise to the American people that, with this election, every vote would count and every vote would be counted, " Edwards told a crowd in Boston's Copley Square that had hoped to hear a Kerry victory speech.
The Gore position is: in a tight race, let's count every legitimate ballot (and argue about the close calls).
You've got to make every shot count out there -- 27 holes in that heat is going to be tough.
What is certain is that for hundreds of years a Frenchman could count on a Scotsman by his side in almost every big battle (often against the English) until the Scottish and English thrones were united under James VI of Scotland in 1603.
He admits that every time he steps in front of a lectern, it could turn into another count against him in his court-martial.
PVTs, which are based on observed ballot-counting at a statistically significant number of polling stations, work particularly well with a mechanism for ensuring an honest vote count (or exposing a dishonest one) in circumstances that prevent monitors from observing every polling station.
How pupils perform in exams will count for rather a lot, granted but how many children actually turn up every day, whether there are signs of progress - will also help decide where your school ends up near the top or towards the bottom of its band.
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