Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mold of Prestwick where the first Open was held, is an unkempt links-land course whittled by the elements, running along the railway line between Liverpool and Southport. The dunes that straddle the fairways and perpetually tearing winds along with four par fives in the last six holes exact the utmost of poise, resilience and control from the field...
...Although exact budget figures are not yet available, the budget projection, which predicted a $50,000 surplus this year, may also turn out to have been overly optimistic, according to a source in the Financial Office...
CATCH 1: U.S. corporations operating abroad would be required to report to the Federal Government any sizable payments that were intended "directly or indirectly to influence the conduct of foreign governments." The exact reporting method has not yet been worked out. By confessing its misdeed, the U.S. corporation would gain immunity from prosecution at home. However, the U.S. State Department would be authorized to forward the company's admission to the concerned country, which could then use the confession as grounds for prosecution under its own laws...
...exact size of this year's Summer School will not be known for about two weeks since it is possible to register for the school today without having given Harvard prior notification...
...Opera at Manhattan's Vivian Beaumont Theater, shaped with satanic brilliance by Director Richard Foreman, is abrasive, stylized and sinister. Brecht's message -sprayed on the stage like graffiti on a subway train-is that the underworld of rapacious thieves, fawning beggars and mercenary prostitutes is an exact mirror image of property-minded, shark-toothed bourgeois society...