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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accomplish their lofty task, the Italians carried computerized radio receivers to stations on each mountain. The instruments used timed signals from U.S. Navstar satellites to calculate the exact longitude, latitude and altitude of each receiver. Armed with these coordinates, the researchers then measured the angles formed by the peaks and the receiver stations with a surveyor's theodolite, as well as the distance between the stations. Since the length of one side of each triangle and two angles were known, the peaks' heights could be accurately determined by simple geometry...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: King of The Mountains | 11/2/1987 | See Source »

Mullinix refused to state the exact amounts the university and the researchers would receive for the license. She said, however, that Genentech had made an immediate cash payment for the right to use the drug, and would also pay royalty fees...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: CLASS CUTS | 10/31/1987 | See Source »

Although Dean of the Division of Applied Sciences Paul C. Martin '52 declined to give the exact amount of funding Harvard's group, called the New England Consortium for Undergraduate Science Education (NECUSE), is requesting, he said it is applying for several million dollars...

Author: By Julie L. Belcove, | Title: Harvard Vies for Science Grant | 10/29/1987 | See Source »

Many civilians were caught in the cross fire. With journalists barred from the town, the exact number of noncombatant deaths was impossible to determine. Tiger spokesmen charged that the Indians had killed more than 250 civilians. ; Indian diplomats did not deny that civilian casualties had taken place, but blamed them mostly on the rebels' tactic of using the local Tamil population as human "shields." In the eastern province, meanwhile, Tiger commandos murdered a total of 21 Sinhalese civilians in two separate attacks and killed 20 Indian soldiers in a land-mine explosion...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sri Lanka The Battle for Jaffna | 10/26/1987 | See Source »

Harvard may not have gotten its shots off quickly, but it certainly got off enough of them--a season-high 26 to be exact. Hartford had only 10 shots...

Author: By Jennifer M. Frey, | Title: Men Booters Crush Hawks, 5-1 | 10/21/1987 | See Source »

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