Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Threat to the Brain. The exact toll of measles illnesses and deaths is not known, the researchers note in the New England Journal of Medicine. In 1958 (most recent year for which full figures are available), 552 U.S. deaths were officially listed as caused by measles, as against 255 by poliomyelitis. Measles kills in many ways. The virus is sometimes the direct cause of fatal pneumonia, but more often it is the precursor of a bacterial infection. Measles also has a tendency to attack the middle ear, which may lead to permanent deafness (occasionally total) on both sides...
...intentions. They feel that 70% margin is too high in today's economy, and that with U.S. consumer credit at a record $52.8 billion, too tight a hold on stock credit is unfair. Says Isaac W. Burnham II, senior partner of Burnham & Co.: "To exact 90%, 80% or 70% margin on the world's most liquid collateral-listed securities-is outrageous. The Fed ought to set margins at 50% and leave them there; 50% is adequate protection for customer and broker...
...tournament record. She wilted a bit in the afternoon sun and slipped to a 75. It was just enough to win when 25-year-old Joyce Ziske's challenge failed on the final hole. Champion Rawls's 72-hole total: a 4-over-par 292 strokes-the exact score Old Pro Betsy, three days before, had predicted would...
...quiet of a rambling house in Hyannisport, Mass, one evening last week, two young women lounged before a TV set watching history in process in Los Angeles. Periodically, the hostess daubed away at a painting, and once the two got into a thoughtful discussion about the exact shade of Dufy blue. It was, in all, a pleasant evening for Hostess Jacqueline Kennedy, wife of the Democratic presidential nominee, and TIME Correspondent Anne Chamberlin...
...price. This premium is designed to keep the U.S. sugar price from fluctuating wildly with the world market price, and to eliminate both the very high prices that hurt the consumer and the very low prices that are disastrous to producers. The Secretary of Agriculture does not set an exact price, but controls it by increasing sugar quota allotments when prices are headed upward, decreasing them when prices are headed downward...