Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With machines pushing so many people out of jobs, it is comforting to learn that man can occasionally displace a machine. That is what has happened on the highways in Connecticut. Disturbed by bottlenecks at toll booths with exact-change lanes, the Connecticut department of transportation this month will scrap all toll-collecting machines and replace them with human attendants. On busy days, 300 to 350 cars an hour used to pass through the machine-tended lanes, while 600 to 650 autos moved through the lanes that were guarded by people-proving that the human hand can be quicker than...
Angry Retort. A few hectic hours later, the Quai d'Orsay dismissed the charge, insisting that Eban had failed to furnish "any document or any proof." The Israelis angrily retorted that Eban had given Hure "exact, precise, detailed and well-founded information," and awaited a formal reply. At week's end the French had yet to make any further comment...
...freshman race, Harvard won by somewhere in between two and three lengths. The exact margin is uncertain as the Navy shell was forced to way-enough about 300 meters from the finish when seven-man Tom Purday caught a crab squarely in the rib cage and was neatly plucked from his seat and deposited in the Severn...
...nude play (Ozamanides II). "Oh, I'm so happy," she says when she gets the part. "Oh, how wonderful and rich and strange life can be when you stop playing out the roles that your parents wrote out for you." But there is more than a bemused, detached, exact satire of the middle-class matron who kicks her restraining habits for culturally rationalized thrills. At the story's center is the husband, upset and bewildered, who only regains a sense of dignity because of those small things which remain with him when he strips himself...
...Here at Alabama we give a coach his own program to run and he has full control over it," Thornton said. "He hasn't signed yet but he'll be here Friday to take care of that. I have no earthly idea the exact terms of his contract but I know the budget allotted to his program by the University Athletics Committee will be close...