Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...taxes by hiding income. But the best teacher was a "Mr. Fixit" named Philip Barasch. Unaware of the investigators' true identity, Barasch, a big Chicago landlord and self-styled "business broker," guided them every step of the way, telling them the hour inspectors would show up and the exact amount to give them (with Barasch's business card enclosed). The only officials he did not advise bribing were police because, he said, "if you pay off a cop, they keep coming around every month, like flies, looking for a payoff." As for tax fraud, explained Barasch: "Everybody chisels...
Thomas O'Brien, financial vice president, said yesterday the Harvard Corporation will cast a final vote on the exact amount of the possible tuition increase at their meeting in early February, based on cost proposals to to submitted by the faculty deans by January...
...Cambridge, as in many other parts of the country, exact count of the number of Hispanics is close to impossible. In Boston, for example, the 1970 U.S. census counted 17,900 Spanish-speaking residents, but this estimate may fall far short of the actual number because of the high mobility within the Spanish community, and a lack of bilingual census takers...
...Bains, near Lourdes, and foremost practitioner of la cuisine minceur, the cooking of slimness: "The most important tool of a chef is his tongue. Taste, taste, taste! And don't forget color. I combine my vegetables the way a painter arranges his colors-until he obtains the exact effect that he wants...
While few clues as to the papers' exact contents were immediately discernable, it was clear that the bulk of the documents did pertain to the Sacco-Vanzetti case...