Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supposed to have wide-ranging and specific memories of their entire lives in the time just before they die--Nate Shaw died shortly after Rosengarten finished his tapings--but even given that, Shaw's ability to remember everything that happened to him is extraordinary. He tells, often supplying exact dates, about everything from how many bales of cotton he raised in his first year of tenant farming, to how he felt when his wife died, to the relative merits of the myriad mules he plowed behind...
...this roster of natural disasters an omen of worse weather to come? The forecasters can only guess. Even the most skilled meteorologists admit that theirs is one of the least exact sciences. But as they ponder the earth's current erratic weather and study their steadily increasing store of knowledge about past climate, more and more scientists are raising storm warnings for the future. At the very least, they foresee troublesome changes in global temperature and rainfall patterns that could seriously jeopardize the earth's ability to feed itself...
Spokesmen for both the Harvard and Cambridge police said last night that they have no clues as to the identity of the thief or thieves, and no idea of the exact date of the theft...
...University does not yet have exact figures on how much it saved by extending last year's Christmas vacation but Wilson said the amount "was fairly impressive...
...exact effects of American strategy overseas may never be completely known. World War III-which 74% of Americans once believed would inevitably occur within a decade after 1947-has not occurred. But who can say for sure if that was the result of courageous U.S. policy, Russian prudence or sheer chance? What the cold war did to the U.S. can be more easily measured, especially since the partisanship that once labeled as un-American any evenhanded inquiry into the subject has now faded...