Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Despite the complexity of converting visuals into numbers, coders say that the computer procedures are a quantum leap over the all-manual page assembly of the past. "This method is more exact," explains Coder Steve Feeback. "The computer can align things more precisely than...
During the campaign, Reagan repeatedly predicted that growth in production and incomes would raise federal revenues enough to shrink deficits painlessly. Figures released last week, however, made it clear that right now the exact opposite is happening. The Government recalculated the third-quarter increase in the gross national product, or total output of goods and services, at a mere 1.9%, vs. 7.1 % in the previous three months. It reported a 7.3% drop in after-tax corporate profits during the third quarter. Moreover, October reports disclosed a slight but unexpected decline in consumer spending, and much bigger falloffs in housing starts...
...What is called "new wave," though, is hardly new at all. The punk movement was simply a case of fashion catching up to where the fringe movements of art had been for years. If we look back as far as the 1910s, we can see a distinct and sometimes exact precursor of the punks' nihilism in a group called the Dada. What is new about the punks is that they're not artists or intellectuals. Instead, they're ordinary, often suburban kids, who have no real idea what they're unhappy about--they know only that they're unhappy. What...
Because of the previous warning and because I was concerned about the safety of the Law school communes, the Harvard Police were called and given a description the individual and the exact location where he had been seen. "Upton wrote...
Little is known about the 5-lb. object of all this controversy or how she came to be the subject of so dramatic an experiment. Loma Linda officials have refused to reveal the child's real name, the identity of her parents or even her exact age. They did say that she was about two weeks old at the time of surgery and had been born three weeks premature. Baby Fae was referred to Loma Linda by a pediatrician in Barstow, Calif. The 546-bed facility is one of more than 60 U.S. hospitals operated by the Seventh-day Adventist...