Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...outdone by Chicago's horde of boosters, who are always dreaming up new ways to celebrate the virtues of their city, Royko once proposed a unique affair. "We are only a few gunshots away from recording our 1,000th 'gangland slaying'-nine away, to be exact. A city wide 1,000th-Hit Festival could be held. There could be a fireworks display in Soldier Field-with exploding cars. Someone from the police department might even make a speech about its role. Since it has solved only two of the 991 cases, the speech need not take long...
...quickly," he says, "they usually never go." He scrutinizes a prospect's book value, sales and earnings reports, also examines advertising budgets because "advertising is closely related to consumer demand." How much will he pay for a company? "There is no man living who knows what the exact right price is for a business," Cummings believes. "You have to make a judgment, and too many people are afraid to make decisions...
...Chevreul, La Farge searched along the same lines that the impressionists were to follow. He wrote: "I wished to apply principles of light and color of which I had learned a little. I wished my studies of nature to indicate very carefully, in every part, the exact time of day and circumstance of light." It was the same route that Monet, slightly his junior in age, was to follow to perfection. In practice, La Farge is more similar to that French loner, Puvis de Chavannes, who also introduced mythological subject matter into naturalistic settings. La Farge, for instance, thought nothing...
...mysterious form of currency to many, Eurodollars flit about the Continent by the billions, escaping a precise definition by economists and an exact count by statisticians. Most simply a Eurodollar, or E$, is an American dollar that has been deposited in a European bank or the European branch of an American bank...
...effort to clear up the confusion, Kuppermann and Chemist John White have taken an impressive step toward making chemistry exact and predictable: they have made the first direct measurement of the minimum energy required to cause one of the simplest chemical reactions known to science. An absolute minimum of one-third of an electron volt is needed, they discovered, to split a hydrogen molecule into two hydrogen atoms and to combine one of them with a deuterium atom to form deuterium hydride. An addition of any less energy and the reaction will not occur...