Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...always told in elementary school that Crispus Attacks was the first person killed in the Revolutionary War-at the Boston Massacre, to be exact. Now my friend the American History major tells me that revisionist historians are now claiming this is no longer true. Which makes the exhibit that just opened at the Springfield Museum of Fine Arts all the more appropriate. It's called The Black presence in the Era of the American Revolution: 1700-1800. It's an interesting topic that most scholars seem to have an opinion on but nobody researches. Through March...
...world's best fetologists cannot agree among themselves when viability begins. Pathologists with the evidence in their hands cannot agree on the exact gestational age of this particular fetus. But the jury in the Edelin trial can agree. So certain are they, that they convicted a man of manslaughter...
There were enough hints that something was wrong. Two students had argued in class about the exact wording of questions on a final exam-even before the exam was handed out. Another student had complained to his professor that he could not have made a mistake on some math problems on a test because an accounting major had worked out the answers for him in advance. But now the cheating scandal at the University of Florida is out in the open, and the campus is in a furor...
...notion was that a community of commuter types might become so fed up with women's lib-or maybe just old-fashioned female contrariness-that it would strike a bargain with a Disneyland fugitive. His idea is to do in their spouses and replace them with physically exact duplicates moved by predictable electronic impulses instead of whimsical human ones...
...Exact Number. The controversy began in late January when Mrs. Ford wrote to State Representative William Kretschmar, thanking him for leading the fight for the ERA in North Dakota's house-a letter that Kretschmar says he used effectively in bringing off a victory. Pleased by the success, she then placed calls to state legislators in Illinois, where the ERA finally got out of committee; to Nevada, where it was subsequently passed by the assembly but defeated in the senate; and to Missouri, where the amendment was passed in the house. A call to Old Friend Barry Goldwater, however...