Word: exaction
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...people. They're not prevention trials, [but they're] just seeing whether the treatments can modify this aggregation of plaques one way or the other. There is some hope that we'll have disease-modifying therapies in the not too distant future. But I can't put an exact number...
...foreclosure in 2007, and the number will probably be even higher this year. Congress is debating a bill aimed at slowing this tsunami, but the window to act is rapidly closing. Next year the focus is likely to turn to preventing a rerun of the real estate debacle. An exact repeat is already unlikely; bleeding banks have toughened lending standards, and the Federal Reserve is tightening its mortgage rules, squeezing out most of those "no doc" mortgage mills...
...Mountain does not have much of an educational component to it--nor is that what Stuckey is aiming for--but it does try to get messages across. By having Rufus hold an oversize cereal box and urge kids in an exaggerated manner to get their parents to buy that exact brand, for example, the show tries to expose marketing strategies. "We want to make kids savvy by poking fun at these things," Stuckey says...
...College changed this. There is no telling why, or when exactly, but I no longer care to remember exact times or dates. Perhaps the time elapsed since these days, these seconds, has become more important than the events themselves. Perhaps I’ve realized that there is little I can procure from knowing exactly when things transpired. More importantly though, I’ve realized that those exact dates, as opposed to the time passed since them, illicit vastly different emotions...
...Grand Canyon over three days. "In the Senate, I try to walk up the stairs most of the time," McCain says. "I don't take the subway." On occasion, he swims, and the old Navy captain still endeavors to do his sit-ups and push-ups, though the exact number is a matter of some discussion. "I can do at least 30 or 40," he said last spring of the push-ups, as his campaign bus crossed the countryside. "But it's pretty easy to cheat on a push-up." He paused, aware that he had grabbed the attention...