Word: exactions
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...internet. Everybody knows. Rememberradcliffe.com—that’s a vintage one. RR: So you already did this once…I guess you didn’t suck enough to not get invited back? JF: I guess not. I’m going to do the exact same material word for word. I don’t want any surprises. RR: And you’re not getting paid…JF: I normally charge 50 grand for charity shows, but I cut it to 30 for this. I made 10 million last year just doing charity...
...thesaurus, it’s obviously going to make you look like an idiot if you don’t know the meaning of the words,” said Shawn J. Hilgendorf ’10. “But if you are choosing more complex or exact terminology I think it would make you look smarter,” he added. “Students sometimes use words a few sizes too large for their purposes,” said Harvard Bernbaum Professor of Literature Professor Daniel Albright. “In general, if you say caliginous when...
...exact opposite of the energy that animated the sixties," Thomas says...
...people whom the penny hurts: those who’ve ever stood in line. A study has shown that making change with pennies adds three seconds to every cash transaction. Penny elimination would save us all time and help us avoid that one customer who insists on paying with exact change, earning stares as dirty as his currency. On the other side of this particular coin, however, is that sole, intangible, conclusive argument against abolition—the poor penny is a beloved American institution; people will fight to keep it that way, regardless of the mounting number of facts...
...badideafactory.com.” But its implausibility, even its surreal absurdity in some cases—one student writes of her resistance to “wet-dreams of greatness”—in fact masks its more disturbing side. The Guide’s exact purpose is unclear: Perhaps its creators aim to recruit a revolutionary army from the ranks of incoming freshmen. Or maybe its goal is to spark debate at any cost. When one student criticized the Guide and its methods on an open e-mail list, Guide editor Adaner Usmani...