Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Despite the press estimates of Hughes' wealth, the exact amount is a matter of considerable confusion. Lawyers for the estate filed appraisals in Houston and Las Vegas courts last March declaring it to be worth only $ 169 million. They included an evaluation by Merrill Lynch Pierce Fenner & Smith stating that Hughes' two main holdings, the Summa Corp. and the Hughes Television Network, were worth $110.8 million. Of the total, they said, $87 million should be set aside to cover costs of lawsuits pending against Hughes interests...
...Exact figures are secret, but estimates are that Rhodesia has about 5,000 regular troops, more than half of them black. The police, most of them trained for paramilitary action, number about 7,500. The majority of them are also black and apparently staunchly loyal to the government...
...there ever been a case of a mistaken admittance? Jewett says a few years back the admissions office was considering two boys with the exact same names right down to the middle initials. One got rejected while the other was admitted. The letters fell into the wrong hands. The admissions office solved the problem magnanimously enough, however. The student receiving the letter of rejection was called and told he could come, while the student who should have been rejected was never told anything. "They were close enough in standing that we didn't think there was anything wrong," Jewett says...
...wander in a remote and somehow doomed pastorale. The book was to become a profound influence on Hemingway, and Poet Randall Jarrell called its evocations of the countryside "the best of all possible worlds." Pritchett agrees. "There are two masters of seeing in Russian literature," he observes. "Tolstoy sees exactly as if he were an animal or a bird: and what he sees is still and settled for good. He has the pride of the eye. Turgenev is also exact but without that decisive pride: what he sees is already changing." A country daybreak, for example, with "torrents...
...best of the book's many historical foreshadowings, Galbraith describes Keynes's lonely stand in opposition to the reparations clauses of the treaty ending World War I. Keynes, with the clanvoyance that earned him a fortune speculating on foreign currencies, foresaw precisely how Europe would try to exact more reparations from Germany than the defeated nation could afford to pay, an impossibility that would lead to Germany's depressed hyper-inflation, and to Hitler. Keynes lambasted the parties to the peace: Wilson, "the blind and deaf Don Quixote" and Lloyd George, a "goat-footed bard." In response, the English establishment...