Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...collecting. Last week the Supreme Court ruled, 6 to 2, that charging women more than men to participate in a pension plan violates a congressional ban on sex discrimination. In a decision hailed as a victory for the equal rights movement, the court stated that employers may no longer exact a larger contribution from women than from men. By paying the same rate, the court acknowledged, men will be subsidizing women to some extent; in the U.S., life expectancy at birth for males is only 69 years, v. 77 years for females. But "when insurance risks are grouped," wrote Justice...
...Edward Lashman, director of external projects, denied this week Harvard had disobeyed the DEQE ruling. "We are building in exact conformance with the permission we have been given," he said...
...most amazingly, there were chances for Harvard runs. Two to be exact, both thwarted by missed signals...
...SUCCEEDED. Tamsen Donner is both the exact detailing of one woman's movement toward death and rebirth, and a proud, universal protest against decay, as represented by George Donner's "festering wound." Without ever descending to self-pity Tamsen asks: "Must we devour ourselves/in order to survive?" She replies: "I cannot see/how I could bear to live/by eating my friend's death...
...four muddle through a sequence of implausibly pathetic fates. The rushed, bumpy narrative seems less a novel than an outline. One situation is "pretty dire." An approaching party promises to be a "rousing debacle." Two of the soldiers get in a fight with "about seven Navy personnel, to be exact...