Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...This is a rough transcript of Podyapolsky's interrogation by his superior in the department, who is pressuring him to renounce his signature on a petition supporting a fellow scientist, who has been imprisoned in a mental hospital for expressing dissident opinions. The Director's actual words give unusually exact insights into the mind of a faithful Party mouthpiece...
While he refused to specify the exact financial goals of the campaign. Center Director Adam B Ulam said the campaign planned to raise "several million dollars" from individual contributions, and grants from corporations and foundations...
...close geographically to their European customers, the cost of transporting the crude is lower. For these reasons, the OPEC members have tacitly agreed in the past that African oil should sell for a few dollars more per barrel than the $34 price for Saudi light crude. But what the exact differential should be has been a matter of dispute...
Will make the whole read human and exact...
Such a character was Captain Mac Whirr of Joseph Conrad's short story Typhoon, a man whose physiognomy was "the exact counterpart of his mind: it had no pronounced characteristics whatever; it was simply ordinary, irresponsive, and unruffled." Mac Whirr, said Conrad, had "just enough imagination to carry him through each successive day." Yet that meager imagination became the hero of the tale, for when a monstrous storm arose at sea, and the good captain was advised by all the voices of reason to sail around and behind the trouble, he of the consistent mind responded, "A gale...