Word: exactingly
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...fair and equal. It would be a proportional tax which would have similar effects on all income classes. Fairness would be achieved since those with similar incomes would pay similar amounts of taxes. This would be a vast improvement over the present system in which people with the exact same incomes often end up paying dramatically different amounts of taxes as a result of loopholes and differences in the composition of consumption...
Damn! The economy is strong. Production, sales, incomes are up. More people are finding jobs. Damn! Nobody on Wall Street would use those exact words; they sound too hardhearted. But the essential thought is voiced by many analysts trying to explain last week's sudden bust in the stock and bond markets (which is no easy job). In extenso, their reasoning goes like this: a strong economy threatens a revival of inflation, at least in the minds of the governors of the Federal Reserve Board. It also means higher interest rates: automatically, because of rising loan demand from business...
...haven't decided on the exact procedure yet. We're looking for the most efficient, most fair...
This doctrine, they say, is intended to allowboth the accuser and the accused to deal with theallegation in the least disruptive and mostprivate way possible. That's why the Universitynever makes available public records of anyproceeding, or even the exact number of complaintsfiled...
Like many Western governments, France was curious about the exact state of Leonid Brezhnev's health during his final years. Marenches found an ingenious way to get information. "He was staying at the Hotel d'Angleterre in Copenhagen during a state visit," the count recalls. "Our people rented the suite under his and dismantled all the plumbing. They intercepted his toilet flushings and sent the samples to Paris for analysis." This unpleasant bit of trade craft revealed that Brezhnev, a vodka lover, had suffered severe liver damage. "The old boy didn't last long after that," says the count, raising...