Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many ways to keep score, the most widely used is with the game 301. Each player starts with this total, then subtracts the value of his three-dart rounds. The winner must go out on a double (zipping a dart into the tiny double outer ring) worth the exact number of points remaining...
...group of British researchers have come up with a partial answer. In a series of papers published recently in the scientific journal Nature, they report that aspirin and its close pharmaceutical relatives tend to halt the production of prostaglandins, hormone-like substances first discovered in the 1930s. Although their exact role is still incompletely understood, prostaglandins occur in semen, menstrual fluid and a wide variety of human tissues. They are known to be involved with the functions of such diverse structures as the heart, bronchial tubes, blood vessels and stomach...
Though no one has ever tallied the exact number, millions of people-probably one out of every ten-suffer at various times from cold sores. Produced by the herpes simplex virus, the unsightly sores appear on the lips, around the eyes or even on the genitals, and can cause swelling and considerable discomfort before they run their two-week course and disappear. Doctors have been able to do little for most cold-sore sufferers except minimize their discomfort with soothing medications. But now a team of dermatologists at the Baylor University College of Medicine in Houston has developed a treatment...
That business has a responsibility to society beyond the making of profits is by now a commonplace, though still far from universally granted idea. Businessmen have often been confused, however, by the exact nature of their responsibility to improve society and how to carry it out. Last week the Committee for Economic Development, a prestigious group of top executives and academics, tried to cut through the confusion. After long and lively debate, its 50-man research and policy committee adopted a statement that lays down some principles and guidelines for corporate social action. Among them...
SoHo is an abbreviation of the city planning commission's original title for the place-"South Houston Industrial District." Its exact boundaries are uncertain, but it can be said to be bordered on the north and south by Houston and Canal streets, and by the Bowery and West Broadway to the east and west. In these 50-odd blocks, a large proportion of New York artists, some 700 of them, with their families, now live and work...