Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Founded in 1970 by graduates of the semi-secret, humor-oriented select social club, the New York-based National Lampoon has a contract to "pay the Harvard Lampoon a royalty for the use of the name 'Lampoon,"' Simmons said. But he refused to disclose the exact amount. Jessica Marshall '86, a Crimson editor who last month was named president of the Lampoon, put it more bluntly: "We just get a hefty check from them every month...
Johnson said he would not be sure of the exact nature of the grenade until the Army Explosive Ordinance Detachment completes an analysis of the device, but said he thought it contained no explosives...
This is not a plea for a handout. But it indicates very clearly administrative failure. Simply put, freshmen this year will receive meals during the week from the 11th to the 18th of September as part of their meal plans. Upperclass men and women pay the exact same tuition and room and board as do freshmen but do not receive the same in return. This is clearly an unethical business practice...
...welcome touch of vintage nostalgia, like the sight of a top hat or a long white glove. For his part, Ballard was willing to share with the world only a portion of his great discovery. Fearing an onslaught of treasure-seeking vandals, he refused to divulge the exact position of the Titanic. "If I give you the depths," he said good-humoredly, "a good oceanographer will know...
...insurmountable obstacles. Even the advent of deep-sea sonar equipment did not initially hold forth much promise for narrowing the search. Although the Titanic is believed to have ^ gone under at 41 degrees 46 min. north and 50 degrees 14 min. west, nobody has ever been sure of the exact coordinates; an error of only minutes in either direction translates into an uncertainty of many square miles. Worse, the ocean floor has bumps, rolls and other geological features that could produce a reflected sound-wave pattern confusingly similar to that of a sunken ship...