Word: exactions
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...spinning the disc at a rate of hundreds of revolutions per minute. As the disc spins, a record-playback head moves across its surface, picking up the original programmer's typed instructions and loading them into the computer's memory. When the disc stops spinning-presto!-an exact replica of the program will be imprinted on the machine's temporary memory, all debugged and ready to deal the cards. Or, depending on the disc, proofread the term paper, balance the books or tell you to sell the hogs...
...cache of $53,000 he had buried in a wooded area northwest of Chicago. When the Cessna crashed, Johnson was helping agents find $55,000 he said he had buried near Cincinnati. Johnson's attorney, Louis Garippo, said that his client was the only person who knew the exact location of the loot...
Though the exact nature of the relationship was not spelled out, both sides acclaimed the agreement as a step toward President Ronald Reagan's four-month-old peace initiative, in which he proposed a loose confederation between the West Bank and Jordan. It seemed to be an attempt to enhance the position of Jordan's King Hussein as he prepared to meet with Reagan at the White House this week...
These sales might further depress already low farm prices, but Block thinks the effect would be minor. The reason: if a farmer let land lie fallow on which he could grow, say, ten bushels of wheat, the Government would give him only eight bushels (though exact ratios are not settled). Thus the total reaching the market would be reduced. Farm income would be bolstered because farmers could sell crops without the expense of growing them...
...exact extent of U.S. involvement with the contras remains unclear. One option paper presented by the CIA to the National Security Council in November 1981 projected expenditures of $19.95 million to support a 500-man force. It is unknown what was eventually approved, but the strength of the contras has grown impressively in recent months. A U.S. intelligence source in Honduras estimates that there are now about 200 CIA personnel in Honduras, four times as many as previously reported. Biweekly flights from Panama bring in rifles, machine guns, mortars and grenade launchers. The contras themselves have grown in number, from...