Word: exaction
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...Harvard men's soccer team will see its first action of the year on Sunday afternoon at Ohiri Field. The Crimson will battle Stanford at 2:30 p.m. and hopes to exact revenge on the Cardinal squad that drubbed Harvard, 3-0, last year in Palo Alto...
...solicited applications last spring. Of the160 applicants, roughly 100 were accepted, Sakodasays, but exact figures were not available atpress time because students were entering at thelast minute...
...Thursday by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, a band of Muslims seeking to depose Egypt's secular government. The group vowed revenge against the U.S. for helping Albania arrest and deport three of its members to Egypt in June. A larger, related organization, the Islamic Group, has long sworn to exact vengeance for the conviction and life sentence imposed on its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
...hours later, the President uttered a grim public warning to the terrorists: "We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes." The U.S. has long believed that the only way to curtail terrorism is to exact justice by capturing and convicting individual culprits and retaliating against nations that sponsor them. Declared National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley: "We don't forgive, we don't forget...
Hendricks went so far as to compare stripping to an art form and the men who come to watch them "perform" to visitors to an art museum. A Maplethorpe exhibit, to be exact...