Word: exact
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There are more serious examples of HEW officials rigidly insisting on some exact...
Another sign of greater accord between the University and the union is the recent ratification of the long-awaited new contract. While neither side would release exact details of the contract, Powers, Joyce and Costello said it concerned wage increases, health benefits, and about 12 more items, including the definition of reclassification policy. Costello called the wage increase "moderate--neither extremely high nor extremely low, but in accord with the cost of living increase." But the union appears less satisified with the contract than the University, for Costello added, "Feelings were extremely high among the men--as in every contract...
Certainly, a convict should be stopped from killing again, but because the brain is so complex, even the most exact psychosurgery can only identify a general area associated with killing and hope that by destroying cells in that area one will also destroy potential killing impulses. But it might not work...
...Government spending plans for the fiscal year that begins Oct. 1 . The Senate has passed its own budget resolution to spend $498.9 billion, and late last week members of the two chambers began working out a compromise that will be sent to President Carter early this week. Whatever the exact total finally is - and many economists believe it will be too high and burdened with too large a deficit - it will set the guidelines for all of Congress's deliberations on appropriations in the months ahead...
Last week's House debate was a classic donnybrook, not just between Democrats and Republicans but also between free-spending liberals and hard-fisted conservatives, between Congressmen who want to cut military spending in favor of social welfare and those who want the exact opposite. Serving as a referee of sorts was Giaimo, 58, whose job was to ensure that no one could force through an amendment greatly changing the overall figures worked out by the Democratic leadership...