Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central themes of Visions '89 was that each individual ethnic group does not have to have the exact same immediate interests to have the same overall interest. As keynote speaker Samuel Betances said, "Let's stop playing the game of my people have more scars than your people. There's no model minority. We're all in this together...
...sweet the balm of history. Like its half-mad hero, Lawrence of Arabia defied the odds and won -- seven Oscars, to be exact. And like T.E. Lawrence, the Oxford-bred English lieutenant who led a Bedouin revolt against the colonial Turks, David Lean's film has grown in legend. Critics revere it as the cinema's greatest epic, and a young generation of filmmakers fondly cite its achievement and impact. "To me it is one of the most beautiful films ever made," says Martin Scorsese, whose Last Temptation of Christ was a Lawrence on the cheap. "The day before...
...money game, or more precisely the lack-of-money game, began its long and intricate course in earnest last week. There were direct signals, mixed signals, contradictory signals -- something for everybody. The central point, however, was unambiguous. A debate rages over the exact effect monumental federal deficits have on the nation's economic health and its role as a world leader. But the President left no doubt that he disdains those who claim that deficits do not matter. If asked, Bush would undoubtedly agree with the assessment of Alice Rivlin, a former head of the Congressional Budget Office. "The budget...
...While some of its goals may be noble, and some of its means acceptable, its basic premise is faulty. Most of the animal rights groups gaining publicity and popularity in the United States do think that killing animals is murder because they believe that animals and humans have the exact same right to live free from undue pain and suffering...
...brochures, at least, home banking comes across as a great advance. Customers can pay bills with a few keystrokes. They can instantly move money from one account to another, enabling them to keep cash in interest-bearing money-market accounts until the exact moment it is needed elsewhere...