Word: exaction
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...know the exact numbers, but we're working very hard to win. It's kind of like heading into a big play-off game," said Jordan St. John, Pierce's spokesperson...
...exact same debate in financecommittee," said finance committee member LewisKitchin '92. "The justification for what we didwas that the group was not informed that theyshould come to only one group...
...That exact proposal has been advanced by West German Foreign Minister Hans- Dietrich Genscher. Under the Genscher plan, Germany would remain in NATO, but the alliance would undertake not to move any military units eastward after unification. It was only after a reassuring two-hour discussion with Genscher that Shevardnadze agreed to the two-plus-four formula, and U.S. officials say the Soviets have been more flexible in private than in public. In London a high-ranking British diplomat said, "They are already talking to us as if it were a fait accompli." Said a senior Soviet diplomat...
...Douglas, 29, knocked out Mike Tyson, 23, in Tokyo last week, ending the champ's four- year reign. The papers called it "the biggest upset in boxing history," but they could just as easily have said cinema history: a story like this happens only in the movies. To be exact, it happens only in Rocky movies. Douglas' shocking victory over the previously undefeated annihilator provided all the improbable thrills of a Stallone fist film. And more. Rocky never got the benefit of a long count, so that his opponent could later complain, as Tyson did, "I knocked him out before...
...prophets. And journalists sometimes forget that their prophecies come not from the heavens but from a branch of mathematics called probability theory, whose most obvious application is to gambling. The concepts are commonly introduced in statistic classes with reference to coin tosses and dice. It is hardly an exact science. Roughly one time out of 20 the typical pollster's finding will fall outside the stated margin of error. And even that assumes a flawless sample that will be exactly representative of the whole population and a 100% response rate -- conditions that are never met in the real world. Accurate...