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Word: exactions (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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Each meal has its own guidelines, she adds. The dinner menu, for example, always has two hot entrees, two vegetables and a starch. Each kitchen is given the exact same recipes, Hennessey says, but there may be slight differences in the ways the food is prepared...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: A Day in the Life of the Dining Services | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...American government officials encourage thebelief that America is the exact sum-total ofindividual aspirations," he said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Babbitt Criticizes Political Process | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

...rectory will eventually be converted into low- and moderate-income housing, according to O'Connell. Although no exact plans have been made for the building yet, she said it is only because it needs to be renovated, "We hope it will be completed before or as soon as the other two buildings...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Harvard Paid Over $3M For Church Parking Lot | 4/5/1989 | See Source »

Scientists remained uncertain about the exact number of human chromosomes until 1956, when improved photomicrographs of dividing cells clearly established that there were 46. This revelation led directly to identification of the cause of Down syndrome (a single extra copy of chromosome 21) and other ( disorders that result from distinctly visible errors in the number or shape of certain chromosomes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Gene Hunt | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

Complicating such decisions is the fact that genetic prognostication will probably never be an exact science. Technicians may someday be able to determine that a fetus has a predisposition to heart disease, certain cancers, or a variety of psychiatric illnesses. But they will not be able to predict precisely when -- or even if -- the affliction will strike, how severe it will be and how long and good a life the baby can expect. As scientists learn to detect ever more minute imperfections in a strand of DNA, it will become increasingly difficult to distinguish between genetic abnormalities and normal human...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: The Perils of Treading on Heredity | 3/20/1989 | See Source »

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