Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slash in his salary from $125,000 to $60,000 a year. Amtrak is now plugging airline-style package weekend tours that include train and hotel reservations in a single, discount price, and has negotiated car-rental discounts for Amtrak passengers at some destination points. Although these are not exactly startling innovations, the attitude behind them is the exact opposite of the viewpoint of private railroad executives, most of whom believe that passengers only get in the way of freight...
...summer of 1971, and, together with Library officials, decided to investigate closely all site possibilities for the new library. It was obvious that it had to be in close proximity to Widener, Houghton, and Lamont, since it would be essentially an extention of those libraries' collections. However, its exact location was a matter to be handled with considerable caution, since it would be the first new building in the Yard since Lamont was built 25 years...
Jones has since been replaced by Edward T. Wilcox, who is almost his exact opposite. Wilcox, for example, appeared at the Union's first meeting this year, skillfully fielded questions from a hostile audience, and then calmly retired to the rear. By not permitting himself to become an issue in the dispute, Wilcox deprived the Union of one of last year's drawing cards...
Good's most ambitious undertaking, however, will be a study that could make cancer immunotherapy a more exact science. At present, attempts to administer and evaluate the relatively new form of treatment are hampered by medicine's lack of knowledge about the full nature and range of immune response. "What we need," says Good, "is a workable system by which we can determine what is normal immunologically, a yardstick by which we can measure and evaluate immune response." To arrive at that system, Good plans to run tests on every patient, employee and staff physician at S.K.I, and Memorial Sloan...
...system goes haywire, recognizes certain of the body's own tissues as foreign, and destroys them. They can also treat these illnesses with drugs that suppress the immune system, relieving the symptoms at the risk of leaving the body open to infection. But they have yet to learn the exact causes, let alone the cures for these diseases, which affect more than 5.5 million Americans...