Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Vast Scale. What was once a trickle has become a flood. Exact figures are hard to come by, but U.S. officials estimate that between 6 million and 10 million illegal aliens are living in the U.S. Last year alone, between 500,000 and 1 million arrived-while another 750,000 were caught and deported. If these numbers are added to the 400,000 legal newcomers who enter every year, it is apparent that the U.S. is experiencing an immigration on the vast scale of that of the turn of the century.* Last week, while concentrating on energy, the Carter Administration...
...exact terms of the relationship between Harvard and Radcliffe have been a little unclear over the past few years, as exhibited in the undefinable "non-merger, merger" agreement the two Colleges made...
Although the exact terms of the proposal have not yet been announced, Radcliffe administrators said yesterday the plan articulates the desire of many college officials not to merge the two Colleges...
...withholding official statements explaining the recommendations it gives the Corporation from the community until weeks after the Corporation votes on shareholder resolutions--the committee might have had enough support behind it to persuade the Corporation to vote in favor of the G.E. resolution. In addition, the ACSR gives exact vote tallies on its recommendations to the Corporation members, but not to the community it presumably represents. Socially responsible recommendations by the ACSR, while laudable, remain only minimally effective so long as the advisory committee chooses to operate in a vacuum; unless the ACSR makes some effort to involve the Harvard...
Warren's depictions of major characters are less exact, particularly in the case of Jed's mistress, Rose (nee Rozelle) Carrington. Rose exists only as Jed imagines her-a compound of firelight and sweating sexuality. She is a medley of images, of bare feet and huddled fur and surrender. But, like Jed, for whom she ironically represents a form of ultimate reality, she is less a character than a poetic creation--evoked, but in the end, not completely present...