Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wiltsee, the chief administrator of the program, was unable to give an exact figure for the increase in applications and said "we don't keep those kinds of numbers...
Scenes from American Life continues to alternate in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theater, Scenes is just that--a series of 36 of them, to be exact, all having something to do with upper-middle class life in Buffalo. A.R. Gurney, Jr., the author, based this comedy on his own experience, and it extends in time from the Depression to the future. At BU at 8 p.m. Call 363-3392 for information...
...restricting the growth of money supply. Many economists indeed blame all post-World War II recessions on overly zealous anti-inflationary policy. But that criticism obscures a vital point. In a society that operates by private decision-making rather than central command, governments must make difficult judgments on the exact mix of tax, spending and money-supply policies needed to nudge businessmen and consumers into the "right" decisions on how much to buy, build and borrow. Inevitably, the fallible humans who run treasury ministries and central banks will make some wrong judgments?and the economy will react...
Less than six months later, Quinn was taking somewhat less than a million ($944,000 less, to be exact) for the privilege of rising at an even ungodlier 1:30 a.m. to be co-host of the CBS Morning News. Though totally innocent of television experience, Quinn had won, at age 32, a much publicized CBS talent hunt for a woman to challenge Walters' dominance of early-morning TV. As Quinn tells it in We're Going to Make You a Star (to be published next month by Simon & Schuster, $7.95), her decision to leave newspaper journalism...
...honorary committee of Ledyard '75 was a near-exact replica of the Social Registry. From the Hon. and Mrs. Standish Bradford through the Davenports, the Hallowells, the Peabodys and Saltonstalls, to the pride and joy of Hamilton, General George S. Patton, son of Gen. Blood and Guts Patton himself. Hamilton even has a Patton Park or some such memorial complete with a bronze tank...