Word: exaction
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...followed by one-hundred dollar facial sessions, administered by a masked woman with a steam wand and a tweezer, who removes my blackheads one by one...I'm impressed that this service even exists. How do these leisure economy capitalists do it? How do they calculate the exact moment at which people are suddenly prepared to pay a hundred dollars for an hourlong blackhead-squeezing session...
...café’s interior design and menu are still being finalized. Richard Getz, who owns the 3 Brattle St. location, hinted that the restaurant would open near the end of the month, but both he and a spokeswoman for Tory Row declined to provide an exact date. “There’s still so much of the concept that’s being developed, so we can’t really say much for certain at this point,” said spokeswoman Elizabeth Lescaze. Curtis and the restaurant’s other owner, Christopher...
...This obsessive research is all part of Eichinger's technique: to fill in the blanks of events that have entered Germany's collective consciousness, but that few people have witnessed up close. Baader Meinhof is laced with exact replicas of iconic photographs that appeared in German newspapers at the time. But these are the after-the-fact images of dead bodies and devastated buildings. Eichinger provides the missing frames, reconstructing the violence leading up to those images to expose its brutality...
...maybe that's not the exact mechanism we want. But by and large, policymakers are reluctant to "take away" people's homes. And that's a problem in itself. Here we're up against macroeconomic forces bigger than we are. There's something to be said for trying to influence where housing is headed--but there may be greater benefit in understanding that it will be a long road to recovery. And the most effective thing we can do is make it less painful for people along...
...Faculty has yet to learn the exact payout rate for the fiscal year starting next July...