Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DEEP in the nation's heartland, Overland Park, Kansas to be exact, there lurks a raging beast. A man who speaks up when other boxers only quake in fear. A man who openly challenges Mike Tyson, the undisputed heavyweight champion of the world...
...Even if I knew the world would end tomorrow, I would continue to plant my apple trees." That is the statement of faith traditionally attributed to Martin Luther. Some skeptic recently challenged the world of scholarship to demonstrate exactly where Luther had ever made such a declaration, and nobody could find an exact source. Perhaps, like so many such pieties, the idea really came from Goethe. Or perhaps Thoreau. It does not greatly matter, for the statement itself is one of abiding hope and abiding truth...
...Goldstein, the activists' attorney, said the protesters will need to determine the exact form their defense will take, but he said that they intend to make Harvard's investment policy relevant to their arguments...
...major victory since the Michigan caucuses in late March, the Jackson camp harbors no one who believes the fantasy that he can win the nomination. But Jackson keeps running in hopes that a strong finish in the June 7 California and New Jersey primaries will help him exact concessions from Dukakis. The problem is that the usually sure-footed Jackson seems confused about the best way to maximize his influence. In recent weeks this candidate who will not concede has vacillated between his long-cherished role as the ultimate maverick and his fledging status as a highly valued party insider...
...count, only 61 of the 2,500 senior policy staff members working for the Senate are black. There are, however, no exact records -- because Congress has exempted itself from equal-opportunity and affirmative-action laws...