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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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There are about 400 document collections in the red brick building in Radcliffe Yard. It is difficult to give an exact number because of the nature of the collections, which range in size from half a file box to 188 linear feet and in subject from a very extensive collection of etiquette and cook books to the letters of Harriet Beecher Stowe and Betty Friedan...

Author: By Anne E. Bartlett, | Title: A Room of One's Own | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

...giving various mob leaders the impression that the Communist Party was criticizing "La Cosa Nostra," the FBI hoped for some kind of retaliation. The FBI carefully avoided specifying the exact nature of the retaliation it hoped for in bureau communications...

Author: By David A. Demilo, | Title: Skeletons From the Closet | 11/29/1978 | See Source »

Most students agreed that they'd rather receive the directory early. "None of it is exact anyway," Clare D. McGorrian '81, a Currier House student, said...

Author: By Maxine S. Pfeffer, | Title: Student Centrex Directories Are Out Week Early | 11/28/1978 | See Source »

...century. The newly discovered oil, which is located below tight, nonporous rock formations, will be difficult to bring to the surface, requiring 16,000 wells to be drilled over a period of perhaps 13 years. While the Mexicans do not belong to OPEC, they are able to exact a high price ($13.10 per bbl.) for the oil that they sell, most of which goes to the U.S.; naturally they plan to step up production sharply. In fact they now hope to triple their oil exports to 1 million bbl. a day by 1980. Though that is only about one-seventh...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Mexican Gusher | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...Tolkien leaves his world open to interpretation. He does not dictate the exact appearance of the Black Riders, or the Balrog; he leaves it to us to envision these horrible things in the depths of our own minds. Likewise, each individual has his own Gandalf, his own Frodo, his own Middle Earth...

Author: By Joseph B. White, | Title: Ripping-Off the Ring | 11/22/1978 | See Source »

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