Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...chair into an allegory of life. Absolutist revolutions, religions and moralities have all foundered on the problems of pain and how to cure it. Now Grass's dentist steps forward, an apostle of technology, a priest of the "relative." He reduces philosophy to Seneca plus hygiene. He is the exact fulfillment of Spengler's prophecy that absolute engineering is man's historical destiny...
...studies conducted by the Equal Employment Opportunity C?mmission (EEOC), three Middle South subsidiaries have uniformly-low percentages of black workers: both Mississippi Power and Light and Louisiana P and L have 4.5 per cent black work forces, while Arkansas P and L dips to 4.2 per cent. Exact figures on the ether two companies in the Middle South chain-New Orleans Public Service and Middle South Services-are not available, but the EEOC says that they do not depart dramatically from the norm...
...return for its payments, Gulf is guaranteed "protection" by the Portuguese army. The exact nature of the protection and of Gulf's payments form the heart of the controversy...
...decline in real gross national product-that is, G.N.P. minus the effect of inflation-in two successive quarters. Such a decline has never occurred except during a cycle that the NBER calls a recession. Last week McCracken dismissed the simple definition as "nonsense." Trying to frame a standard so exact, he said, is as "pointless" as trying to determine "the exact minimum number of whiskers that qualify to be called a beard...
Pusey will leave in June 1971, two years ahead of mandatory retirement. Characteristically, last spring's upheaval did not hasten his decision. Pusey made his retirement plans known to members of the Harvard Corporation more than a year ago, well before the April fracas. He fixed the exact date last June...