Word: exacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...afternoon. Get real! An 1,800-point decline today would be the same 23% drop that occurred on Oct. 19, 1987. And that plunge took place after the Dow had already fallen 17% from its speculative peak three months earlier, which was 10 years ago this month. An exact recurrence would put the Dow at 5200 by mid-October...
...seem almost churlish to wonder what sort of jumpy society will result from so many people becoming so sensitized to potential violence. De Becker claims that a calmly employed intuition, bolstered by knowledge, is actually "the exact opposite of living in fear." He describes a woman who was unjustifiably unnerved when he joined her in an elevator. "A man who gets into the elevator on another floor," he writes, "a man who gives her no undue attention, who presses the button for a floor other than the one she has selected...who stands a substantial distance from...
...perfect essay, like life itself, is exact in formal procedure and logical ascent. It has a beginning, known more intimately as a birth, a middle, that part in which one determines the direction and slant of one's future endeavors, and an end, the climax toward which all prior experiences naturally lead and in which the essence of the topic, one's purpose, becomes known. Let us proceed now to discuss first the birth, second the middle, and third the end of the perfect essay...
Inasmuch as that is noted, the objective for the writer of the perfect essay is the exact argument. The exact argument proceeds from a previously elaborated thesis. It is ordinarily divided into two, three or four points. All complex arguments are also required to be reduced to two, three or four points so that the reader can comprehend the nature of the argument. Within each point, the author is required to marshal evidence to convince the reader that the thesis of the essay is perfect. In the case of the weary workers, for example, the author might cite personal discussions...
Naming features on the red planet is hardly an exact science. After putting in 16-hour days, says Bob Reid of the Mars Pathfinder science team, "we choose names that keep us happy." Match each Martian formation below with its terrestrial namesake...