Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Poll watchers from the Globe reported a disappointingly small turnout of new voters although exact statistics are not yet available...
...Space (Random House; $7.95), Philip J. Klass, senior avionics editor of Aviation Week & Space Technology, offers a first, fascinating look at the space hardware that has, so far, contributed to global stability. By allowing the two major nuclear powers to examine one another's military installations in exact detail, the satellites have considerably diminished the danger of war through miscalculation...
...police in the U.S. make about 100,000 arrests a year for prostitution. Anything resembling an exact figure is obviously impossible to get, but estimates on the total of full-time professional prostitutes in the U.S. run as high as 500,000, and reports indicate that the number seems to stay fairly constant in relation to the population. The most comprehensive if not the most trust-inspiring figures originated with the late Dr. Alfred Kinsey, who reported back in 1948 that 69% of the men he interviewed had visited a prostitute at least once, and that...
...real, whether I'm a robot, whether I'm human. There's a guy on third and nobody out, and they expect you to strike out the side. Not maybe two ground balls and a strikeout. No, three straight strikeouts they want. Nine straight strikes to be exact. But I'm no miracle man. I can be hit nine miles just like anybody else. If you throw a strike, you're gonna get hit and I don't care who you are. Somebody is going to hit you, man. You're gonna pay the dues...
...have speeded vaccination and reduced the cholera threat, but camp health officials have already counted about 5,000 dead, and an estimated 35,000 have been stricken by the convulsive vomiting and diarrhea that accompany the disease. Now officials fear that pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis will also begin to exact a toll among the weakened ref ugees. Says one doctor: "The people are not even crying any more...