Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...EXACT RECKONING is possible; the Red Sox front office gave neither a precise accounting of its patronage nor a description of how it decided who its friends were. At most 7000 seats went to fans without pull; the accurate figure is probably even lower. (In Cincinnati, only 12,300 of Riverfront Stadium's 53,000 seats went to fans with no connections...
...exact figures are hard to come by, the general trend is nonetheless apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part...
...become a theologian following his own books, not his father's bitterness. The reader is at once unsurprised and informed, wholly aware of what it must have been like to belong to such a family and such a religion at such a time. Conveying vividly the exact feel of unfamiliar territory is a job almost exclusively performed by journalists. But as Chaim Potok (The Chosen) reminds us, the fact that novels can accomplish that task superlatively is one of the reasons why they are still written-and read...
...despite the frenzy of both the performers and the audience, the show retained its tightness and musical virtuousity. The numbers were delivered in fast sequence. The harmony was close and rhythm exact, the sound was solid and pure, and the show was unencumbered by excesses of lightsmanship. The first half of the concert was mostly composed of tunes from Jimmy Cliff's two albums, The Harder They Come and Unlimited. While the second half ran through his just-released album, Follow My Mind. For its first encore the band played Under the Sun, Moon and Stars, and the concert ended...
Kaufmann said the exact tuition rise depends on "whether or not enough savings can be made" in current Faculty expenses "to balance or hold down the budget" rather than charge more from students...