Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cabs. All fares will be promptly deposited in the boxes, which the drivers cannot unlock. There the money will remain until the boxes are opened at the taxi garage. Drivers will be encouraged to carry only about $5 in change and cab riders educated to have exact-or near-exact -amounts of money available to pay for their rides. Thus, according to proponents of the scheme, holdup men will soon realize that a cab stickup will net them only a few dollars at best, and begin losing interest in taxis...
...affair has started a serious debate about British accounting practices. Critics complain that laymen have been encouraged to regard accounting as an exact science, when in reality it involves frequent value judgments. Moreover, Britain lacks the equivalent of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to set rules for corporate disclosure, thus allowing management and its auditors to keep ordinary shareholders in the dark about the intricate formulas used to derive profit figures...
...WITCH, says that "the sexual revolution was hell on women. It never helped us?it just made us more available." The West Coast Redstocking Manifesto reports that "our bodies are male-occupied territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap from private property to public property, they treat women worse than ever...
Psychoanalyst Irving Bieber of New York Medical College says that men and women are very different genetically, and points out that the exact degrees of difference have yet to be determined. Both Bieber and Fox?and Clinical Psychologist Wardell Pomeroy as well?dispute Millett's argument that the family's chief function is to perpetuate the prescribed patriarchal attitudes. "That's another one of her sweeping generalizations," says Fox. "To assume that the situation is perpetuated by male conspiracy is to ignore the genetic basis." The real issue, says Fox, "is whether male and female roles are totally flexible...
...Latin primer, and a French primer. With this start he educated himself, taught himself English, but an English far superior to any he could have learned in school, a wild soaring English free of the dullness of grammatical conventions and "standard" usage. His is an English precise and exact, but exuberantly alive...