Word: exactions
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...some findings are unexpected, even counterintuitive. Creativity, for instance, rarely strikes in a flash but more typically results from steady cogitation. Multitasking, for all its seeming efficiency, can exact a heavy toll on the quality of our output. Daily meditation physically transforms the cerebral cortex. Physical exercise may be as important as mental gymnastics in keeping Alzheimer's disease at bay. Baby Einstein-type videos make a poor substitute for human interaction in stimulating a tender young mind. And perhaps the most unexpected and comforting, recent research confirms that the human brain retains an astonishing degree of plasticity and capacity...
...choice” and “pro-abortion” are not equivalent adjectives, as the issue of EC makes abundantly clear. Taking the morning after pill averts a pregnancy; it precludes the need to terminate a human fetus. The exact moment at which life begins may be hard to pinpoint, but except for those who believe that life begins at conception––those who will never identify themselves as pro-choice––it is hard to call a blastosphere of sixteen cells a human life...
...case, the exact dollar amounts for each city will not be announced until May at the earliest-later than in past years. That means cities will not know how much they are getting until the year is almost halfway over. And regardless, the total pot is $120 million less than...
...foundation has been able to exact a rare level of accountability from its grantees. In India the foundation runs an HIV/AIDS-prevention program that is headed by Ashok Alexander, formerly a senior partner at consulting firm McKinsey & Co. He calls the 200,000 sex workers served by the program "customers" and the clinics "franchises." In the past year, he has cut off funding to three nongovernmental organizations because they did not meet agreed-upon milestones. "People are not used to being terminated for nonperformance, strange as it may seem," Alexander says...
...that 87 percent of students would likely eat dinner in the dining halls after 7:15 p.m. if that was possible. UC representatives present at the meeting said that they would like to take the issue to constituents either informally through discussions or formally through a referendum after the exact costs of the different proposals are known. Current dining hall hours are 7:30-10:00 a.m., 12:00-2:15 p.m. and 5-7:15 p.m. each day, with the three quad houses having 15 additional minutes added to the end of lunch and dinner, according to the HUDS...