Word: exaction
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...resistance, the patient becomes highly susceptible to infection. The Stanford group has a remedy for that too. "We throw a whole array of antibiotics at the patient as soon as we suspect something," says Dr. Sharon Hunt, a member of the postoperative care team. "Once we have ascertained the exact nature of the infection, we withdraw those that are not needed...
Admissions is not an exact science and officials say they use recommendations, school reports and interviews to fill out the objective data of test scores, class rank and grades to make a flesh-and-blood picture of a candidate...
...individual books is similarly annoying. Though he is adept at tracing the thematic continuity of her work, Lewis engages in only the most cursory literary criticism, offering plot summaries more often than analyses of her novels' style or structure. At the same time, he painstakingly sets down the exact proceeds from each of her published works...
...says, "they learn the music so well that it sails out of them." And the authentic version too. "It is important to start by going back to the original manuscript because so much in opera happened before the age of photography, when music copying began to be a more exact science." That kind of reverence for the printed notes does not keep Caldwell from having a little fun now and then. In the party scene from her 1972 Traviata, the champagne corks were popped in time to the music. Her 1973 Daughter of the Regiment found Sills onstage slicing potatoes...
...exact figures are hard to come by, the general trend is nonetheless apparent. My cousin's ticket came from her father's friend, a businessman who once pitched minor league ball and now throws batting practice for the Red Sox before gametime. Almost everyone at the first game of the Series had some similar story of at least vague ties to VIP's. A friend of mine got his ticket from a friend of his who had an acquaintance in the Fly Club, to which several tickets had been donated by an Fly alumnus who had once owned part...