Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nevertheless, people have been calling Horowitz a genius--a boy genius, to be exact--since he was seven, and gurgled over the air in Morse Code, the youngest ham radio operator in the country. The talk continued as Horowitz went through Summit High School in New Jersey and Harvard, building gadgets in his free time like refrigerators with no moving parts and advanced telescopes. And when he began dating a tall blond nursing student named Carol Grodzins a few years ago, colleagues often approached her at parties and whispered, as if sharing a delicate secret, "Paul is such a genius...
...units-hours, minutes, seconds) is gradually slowing down-largely because of tidal friction. For that reason, the timekeepers decided a few years ago to make an occasional correction by inserting a so-called leap second. In that way, the accurate atomic clocks that they rely on to keep the exact time do not get ahead of the less dependable earth. Since leap seconds were introduced in 1972, four have been added, and even more can be expected in the future as the earth continues its gradual slowdown...
...alleged manslaughter occured sometime last October; the exact date has been impounded by the court. Edelin has admitted that the abortion was performed, but has asserted that it was legal...
...tornadoes. He seeks shelter in a clap-board-gothic house and lands in the middle of a Vincent Price movie. It includes a mad scientist, a demented, beautiful woman and a terrible secret: through genetic tinkering, the scientist claims to have discovered how to populate the world with exact duplicates of himself and his companion. Solipsism teeters toward the edge of reality. The storm explodes the house like an inflated hypothesis, but the doctor survives -and so, in a way, does the scientist...
...request television time, and perhaps that was just as well. According to some advisers who helped draft the speech, it was supposed to indicate a willingness to revise policy to deal with plunging production and mounting joblessness, but it came across to some listeners as indicating the exact opposite. Ford did promise some unspecified new proposals in January. But he also remarked that anyone who wanted him to make a " 180-degree turn" from inflation fighting to pump priming "will be disappointed." He added: "In so far as I can prevent it, the fundamental rules of the economic game...