Word: exaction
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...under Joseph Stalin's regime. His secret police rounded up the inmates--mostly Stalin's political opponents--and imprisoned them in a series of camps known as the "Gulag Archipelago." At their peak in the late 1940's, slave labor camps held as many as 15 million Russians. The exact numbers remain unknown--thousands may have died of starvation, cold, or disease. Interviews of recently released gulag inmates have revealed that conditions today are in violation of nearly every recognized standard of health and safety...
...collection has allowed archeologists to study how the Tunica Indians survived--and even profited from--their contact with the French, a good fortune which Brain says was shared by few other tribes. Before the discovery, researchers did not even know the exact location of the Tunica tribe. Now they have a wealth of information about the aboriginal Indians, including clues showing that the Tunica were trade intermediaries between the French and other Indian tribes...
...situation wasn't an exact parallel to last year's crucial game at Penn, when a roughing-the-kicker call on Harvard gave Quaker placekicker Dave Shulman a second chance, which he used to beat the Crimson with no time showing on the clock. But the lateness of the call--as Restic saw it--gave the visiting coach that deja vu feeling...
...doctors, the new rules mean a crash course in the one aspect of medicine that most never learned in medical school: finance. Over the past few months, hospitals have been distributing pamphlets to physicians, detailing the exact cost of every test, operation and medication, and offering instructions on how to cut out unnecessary expenses. Says Ben Bronstein, communications director of the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: the Hospital Association of Pennsylvania: "Doctors are going to have to bite the bullet and ask themselves if they really need all those tests." Physicians who routinely order nose-to-toes X rays or prescribe...
Carol Ann Johnston, a third-year English Department graduate student was in her Perkins Hall apartment putting in a contact lens early yesterday morning when the mirror began to shake. At the exact same time across campus, Zoe Bercovitch '87 was doing homework in her Hollis bedroom when the walls started trembling...