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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Haitians seem to be concentrated in low-paying, low-skill jobs primarily in the service and labor sectors, though exact figures are unavailable because many Haitians refuse to speak to government officials for fear of recrimination against their families back in Haiti or because they came here illegally...

Author: By Laura E. Gomez, | Title: Haitian Immigrants Battle Discrimination Daily | 3/20/1984 | See Source »

...pages of Adam Smith and John Stuart Mill, pillars of the political and economic tradition to which the Republican Club is the delinquent heir. Why, each year department chairman David Landes gives a lecture in which he lambastes Marx as a historian and economist, echoing Raymond Aron's exact words that "Marxism is the opiate of intellectuals." So much for the nursery of radicalism...

Author: By William S. Benjamin, | Title: A Hotbed of Radicalism? | 3/16/1984 | See Source »

...Solidarity Committee explicitly supported the armed liberation struggle of the ANC and PAC, which are recognized by the UN. So did 1500 students who signed a petition proclaiming that support and support for the bank loans ban, In contrast, Silvers talks about guerrilla warfare as "Face warfare" in the exact phrascology one would expect from an apartheid judge condemning a freedom-fighter to death...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: SASC | 3/15/1984 | See Source »

...residency in 1971, the amount of entertaining that the masters do has expanded exponentially," Heimert said. He added that the proposals asked the College to provide the co-masters with more help, in order to lessen the amount of "scullery work" they do Heimert refused to elaborate on the exact nature of the recommendations...

Author: By Mary F. Cliff, | Title: College May Ease Co-Masters' Job | 3/7/1984 | See Source »

Slick Six's inaugural launch in October 1985 will employ the newest shuttle, Discovery, now being checked out at Cape Canaveral. The exact mission will be top secret, as will all shuttle flights from Air Force-run Vandenberg, but it has been reported that the main job on that first flight will be to ferry two satellites into space. Since Discovery will be placed in a polar orbit, its ground track will cover the Soviet Union. One of those satellites could be a new hush-hush communications package, and the other a device equipped with infrared sensors to spot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Space: New Pad for the Space Shuttle | 3/5/1984 | See Source »

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