Word: exactions
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...exact numbers about how many Harvard students attempt to commit suicide every year are unavailable from the University...
...says of the possibility of Piper missing Sunday’s contest. “Sure, it’s detrimental to their lineup, but we’re not going to get caught up in that. We’re going to approach this game in the exact same way as we were before...
...extracted from his "spider hole," these sources say, Saddam spit on his captor. As the incident was reported by the military, according to a U.S. source, a soldier promptly slugged the old tyrant--probably the first time in more than two decades that Saddam was powerless to exact lethal revenge on someone who stood...
...idea seemed reasonable enough. Faced with an onslaught of Palestinian suicide bombers, Israel decided to build a barrier between itself and the West Bank. A similar wall around the Gaza Strip has ensured that no bomber has crossed from Gaza into Israel in the past three years. But the exact placement of the new fence is causing concern. Instead of following the Green Line--the demarcation that existed before Israel conquered the West Bank in 1967 and the line Palestinian leaders imagine as a border for their future state--Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon pushed the fence inside the West...
...emergence of third-generation (3-G) mobile-phone services in Europe got curiouser and curiouser in December, as O2 Ireland fired up its 3-G network and CEO Danuta Gray declared that "a limited number of customers" are already using it. It's limited, all right: 25 to be exact, or six phones for every million people on the Emerald Isle - and there won't be any more anytime soon. O2 flipped on its 3-G switch now because Irish regulators require it do so by the end of the year. After all the phone talk, an O2 spokesman said...