Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's exact rank in engineering was not disclosed. But the University received a good rating, for below the five schools that were considered "distinguished" -- M.I.T. Berkeley, Stanford, Cal Tech, and Illinois...
...much as the U.S. knows about Red China, the experts are the first to recognize that there is a great deal that it does not-and should-know. Almost nothing is known, for example, about the exact process of decision making among Mao and his colleagues. Who are the Red Chinese hawks and who are the doves? Is there a show of hands in critical disputes, or does Mao decide by fiat? The hardest information to get is on the party's cadre organization, and only a minimum of biographical material is available on the leadership. The U.S. would...
...these books finally found her own voice as a writer, a voice in which masculine force was suffused with feminine tenderness, and boulevardiering decadence with a wonderful country freshness. In her 50s she extended her mastery. Her ideas, her images became ever more exact and effective. "The dog lay down with a great rumble and thump that sounded like a bag of potatoes being emptied"-"At the windows hung some nasty little curtains fit for wrapping abortions...
...seems increasingly open to them) than because accumulated poverty and prejudice have damaged the cultural prequisites of obvious less-privileged groups. Moreover, would you not reintroduce many of the invidious distinctions you in fact condemn by yur proposal that the Peace Corps are related projects be considered as an exact equivalent to the draft? After all, these options have a far lower risk to life and limb than the armed services, and the armed forces require a much more unattractive (sometimes mindless) discipline--and this is not even considering the question of the present...
Certainly, research on Cannabis has not come terribly far: the drug's mechanisms of action and its exact effects on the body are poorly understood. Still, a standard text of pharmacology (Goodman and Gilman: The Pharmacological Basis of Therapeutics, 3rd ed., 1965) says'...there seems to be a growing agreement within the medical community, at least, that marihuana does not directly cause criminal behavior, juvenile delinquency, sexual excitement, or addition. Therefore, while attempts to limit its use are appropriate, the hazards of its use should not be exaggerated." Interestingly enough, however, the most recent investigations (Hashish: Its Chemistry and Pharmacology...