Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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David L. Johnson '74, a member of the commission, said yesterday that "nobody we talked to wanted a re-examination" in the course and that "we couldn't pursue corrective action without exact data" on who had the advance information
...political arm) in Luton, a north London industrial suburb. More specifically, he was to do his drinking at a pub called The Foresters, where he met several Irish militants. "I was told to get in on everything they were up to," Lennon recalled. "I cannot remember the exact words [the detectives] used, but one of them said that I should egg them...
...more complex they realize it is. There are, in fact, almost as many "alcoholisms" as there are alcoholics. Behavioral Scientist Don Cahalan of the University of California at Berkeley objects to even attempting a strict definition. Drinking, he says, is a continuum, and no one can draw an exact line between an alcoholic and a severely troubled drinker. "The issue," he states, "is why some people apparently waste their lives on alcohol while others don't. What's the 'glue' that binds some people to their alcohol problems?" Adds Marty Mann, the woman who founded...
...hesitated all day, but at last he makes up his mind. He walks over to the telephone, picks up the receiver, and dials the number. His throat is dry. As he hears the phone picked up on the other end, he goes over in his mind the exact words he will use in asking her out to the movies...
...warehouse full of Italian marbles and build a palace on the newly land-filled Fenway. She changed blueprints daily for five years, infuriating her architects. She was so picky about details that, although in her late 60s, she climbed up a ladder in her central court to blend the exact shade of yellow-pink she wanted...