Word: exacted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Saradjeff arrived with them to oversee their installation and playing. He is vividly described by Mason Hammond in a 1936 document preserved in the Harvard University Library. Saradjeff was supposed to be a genius of ringing--a tortured but prolific composer of carillons with an ear tuned to the exact pitch of bronze. His face had been horribly disfigured during the war. He spoke no English and had a history of epilepsy. Without delay Saradjeff retired to the basement of J and K entries to tune the smaller bells, a cacophonous process involving endless tapping and filing. For weeks...
...Originally, I said let's take a five yard penalty and kick the 'extra point,'" Murphy said. "And I must admit my thoughts went back to the Yale game last year when we were in the exact same position and we missed it. I said nope, let's go down swinging...
...qualitative shift; we live in a different society now than we did during the Johnson administration. Today, a ?normal? life involves a lot more things than ever before," like television, cable and computers. "It?s not like measuring how old you are," Cohen adds. "You could have the exact same amount of money, adjusted for inflation, as you did in 1965, and you may be poor now - even if you weren?t poor back then...
...packages differ in size from $250 to $3,000 annually, depending on how much is owed to each employee, and will pay out over one to four years. While both University and union officials could not cite exact dollar amounts, both said the total cost for the University would be in the millions...
...University and union officials, the task of figuring out the exact numbers still lies ahead...