Word: exactions
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...said, "My daughter's off to Harvard this fall and I told her, 'You're not going to four years of college to work on 'The Letterman Show.'" Not surprisingly, my father had said the exact same thing...
...book in Mrs. Rubin's third grade class, and I'm still sorry about it. (Especially since Mrs. Rubin owned the same children's poetry book.) Professor Richard Marius, the director of Harvard's expository writing program, once wrote a story about a public hanging--then found the same exact story underneath someone else's byline 15 years later. (The plagiarist died soon afterwards. Coincidence? Perhaps...
...liked the sport the first time she picked up a mitt. "You really get into it. The best part is the feeling of pride when you catch." And as her brother Brad, 9, pointed out after he neatly snared Ashley's pitch, "you don't have to be exact. If the ball hits on the mitt's side, it sticks...
...latest evidence has left American and British officials uncertain about the exact size of Iraq's weapons-grade uranium stockpile. In theory, had Saddam's physicists proceeded unimpeded from 1985 to 1995, Iraq might have been able to amass anywhere from 200 lbs. to 1,100 lbs. of bomb-ready fuel, experts say. At present, the amount of fissionable uranium is probably still very small. "I'd be skeptical of claims that he's close to a bomb," said an Administration official. "People who come out with bold statements about how much material he has just don't know what...
...suggests that the Ciba-Geigy product is a good alternative to surgery. Kessler objects because surgery is the preferred treatment in most cases. Though many people find the drug ads helpful, doctors share Kessler's concern. "The consumer can take a little bit of information and come to the exact opposite conclusion that he should," says the American Medical Association's Dr. M. Roy Schwarz...