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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...accumulated over the years." The sample fish in the study were bottom feeders, such as carp and catfish, which scavenge in slimy sediment, where dioxin tends to settle. Cautious environmental officials renewed warnings against eating fish from the Tittabawassee, though no outright ban has been declared. The exact health risk from dioxin absorbed by fish has not been determined...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fish Stories and Empty Offices | 4/11/1983 | See Source »

...woman might choose a well-known body dump for a driving lesson. This was one of the number of occasions, during the two weeks my husband and I spent in EI Salvador, on which I came to understand, in a way I had not understood before, the exact mechanism of terror...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Voyage Into Darkness | 3/24/1983 | See Source »

...hopelessly sick people, with the express purpose of reducing, as the British guide puts it, "the incidence of unsuccessful attempts." A Guide to Self-Deliverance is heart-wrenching reading. The manual stresses that suicide should be a last resort for those in intractable pain. It then offers the exact doses of drugs that will ensure death. The manual recommends that the drugs be used in combination with other methods, such as plastic garbage bags and auto exhaust. If the prescriptions are carefully followed, the end will presumably be painless and "the body when found should simply look dead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Going Gentle into That Good Night | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

Popper amplifies his position with numerous other arguments. Foremost of these is the famous "three-body problem" of classical physics: No exact solution exists for the equations describing the motion of systems which contain three or more particles--even if the initial conditions can be known exactly, our prediction must still be an estimate. Classical physics is not accountable and therefore does not imply determinism, Popper argues...

Author: By Brian A. Lynn, | Title: Getting Physical | 3/18/1983 | See Source »

James E. Cohen '83, who drafted the letter for the committee and supervised its distribution among the Faculty, said that while the effects of one letter cannot be measured in exact terms, "when no one outside the USSR speaks up, they feel that they can do whatever they want to their dissidents...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Soviet Dissidents | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

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