Word: exactions
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...Without Google in Yahoo!'s corner, Yang would never have been bold enough to try and squeeze an extra $4 per share out of Microsoft. By all accounts, he genuinely believed that it was a win-win situation: either he would exact a premium from Microsoft or he would team up with Google, which would sell ads against the world's most-visited website and revive its fortunes. How could Yahoo! lose...
...Classes were in session when College La Promesse Evanglique, a school of 500 students in a suburb of the capital, collapsed and crushed at least 91 people, mostly school children. The likely cause: shoddy construction. But nearly a week after the collapse, the government has yet to determine an exact body count. The frustration was compounded when, five days after the disaster, another school suffered a partial collapse. No one appears to have died in that incident...
...seems like an exciting time for the arts in general,” he said. With the winter of 2008 now rapidly approaching, members of the Task Force maintain that their first report is forthcoming. No specific date for its release has yet been set.Until it is published, the exact contents of the Task Force’s report will remain a mystery to students and other members of the Harvard arts community. While the Task Force has taken into account peer institutions, past Harvard reforms, and student opinions, all that can be certain at this point is that, like...
...original recipe from Fleming's first Bond book, Craig's 007 ordered a drink he dubbed the Vesper - a hybrid martini that is three parts gin and one part vodka, mixed with a half-ounce of Kina Lillet. Ordering the drink, Bond's words in the film were an exact echo of the dialogue in Fleming's 1953 Casino Royale story...
...Franklin Field, including a 22-13 loss in 2006 that was not as close as that score would indicate.The lone win since 1982 came in 2004, when Harvard dominated the Quakers 31-10 on the way to an undefeated season. Unsurprisingly, that 2004 squad was also excellent in the exact area where this year’s group is weak.“In 2004, we were number one in the league in special teams,” Harvard coach Tim Murphy said. “We had great specialists, we had great units in general, and we were really...