Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...splendour and graceful, but inevitably brutish, carelessness. Farrow maintains a delicate balance between a gay childishness with her illicit lover, Gatsby, and a wanton callousness, a total disregard for anybody's feelings. Henry James's novella, Daisy Miller, adapted for the screen by Peter Bogdanovich, is a portrait of exactly that kind of woman. But Cybill Shepherd's performance is slightly more questionable. In fact, the whole movie is questionable, like one of James's long spiralling sentences, full of commas, semicolons, and dashes--seemingly interminable. Bogdanovich's problem is that he can't capture James's true genius...
...Frederick LaRue, a former re-election committee aide, to the Watergate conspirators. "What will LaRue say he got the 350 for?" wrote the President on April 15, 1973-the day when Nixon was told by Prosecutor Henry Petersen that Haldeman and Ehrlichman were guilty of cover-up activities. The exact meaning of Nixon's note is unclear. But apparently he was not thinking that telling the simple truth would be the best course for LaRue...
...essentially flat. David Grove calculates that real gross national product, which dropped at an annual rate of 6.3% in the first quarter, dipped another .3% in the quarter ended last month. Otto Eckstein more optimistically figures that production rose-but by a lackluster rate of 1.6%. Whatever the exact figure, the pattern of a sharp first-quarter drop followed by little if any real growth in the second quarter will keep economists arguing for months about whether the situation can properly be called a "recession." More important, both Grove and Eckstein forecast only a modest resumption of economic expansion late...
Arcand said no electrical damage occurred because Canaday Hall's transformers were not in place. He said that the watermain break was reported at 6 p.m. Thursday by a staff engineer. The flood was brought under control within the next half hour. He said exact estimates of the damage would not be ready until next week...
Parkhurst hedges somewhat on the exact role he and Overdrive played in the shutdowns. He does not see himself in any leadership position among truckers. In an interview last month, he said, "Truckers don't want somebody up there saying, 'Hey you're gonna do this or you're gonna do that,' so we've been very careful, in stating the facts, that we act as a funnel for all their problems and focus them as best we can. I suppose that there are some truckers that look upon us as being a leader or their leader...