Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Tomorrow night, and I mean night,(11 p.m. to be exact) the Celtics can be seen (on the tube) playing the Los Angeles Lakers. Another sporting event coming from L.A. Which will also be televised is the Glen Campbell-L.A. Open. The linksters will putter around on channel 7 at 5 p.m. Saturday...
Nowadays physicists rank quantum mechanics alongside relativity as one of the twin pillars of their science. But at its heart is an almost philosophical aspect that deeply troubled Einstein. It is the uncertainty principle, which says, for example, that it is impossible to tell both the exact position and the momentum of a single atomic particle?an electron, say?because the very act of observing disturbs it. Only by statistical means (like those used to determine probability in dice or poker) can a scientist predict what the results of such an experiment will...
...member McGraw-Hill board did the exact opposite. At a 3½-hour meeting that some present described as "intense," the directors voted unanimously to reject the $40 offer. McGraw apparently won unanimity by harping on his two main arguments: 1) that an Amexco takeover would undermine the editorial independence of McGraw-Hill publications, especially Business Week and the Standard & Poor's bond-rating service, and 2) that Amexco President Roger Morley had committed a "serious breach of trust" by serving as a McGraw-Hill director while Amexco was preparing its bid-a charge that McGraw repeated...
...Bell's command, the machine can re-create the exact movements of the stars for an entire day in just 30 seconds and rearrange the sky in under a minute. It can perfectly duplicate the heavens visible from any hemisphere, taking the audience from New York to the South Pole and back up to the other side of the North Pole-all without stopping for lunch and in about 40 seconds. Bell is almost giddy as he lets the machine tumble time back to the reign of Herod and thence to the Adoration of Christ...
Less easily disposed of were some nagging questions about the episode, ranging from the whereabouts of millions of dollars amassed by Jones' cult to the exact causes of all those deaths. In the case of Jones, said Baltimore Pathologist Dr. Rudiger Breitenecker last week after examining the bullet wound in the cult leader's head, "it looks like a suicide...