Word: exact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Coincidentally, on the very day planned for the treaty signing, members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries were to meet in Geneva. And not at all coincidentally, the Arab nations were expected to exact a penalty for a treaty they abhor by once again raising the price of oil. Even Saudi Arabia, which has long been a moderating influence in OPEC, disapproves of the Israeli-Egyptian pact enough to agree that oil should be used as a retaliatory political weapon against the U.S. But more than ideology and power politics would be at work in Geneva. There was also...
...sure of the exact figure because of the legendary secretiveness of the diamond trade. But business is obviously booming. In the past five years, prices have quintupled, and the working population of the street has more than doubled, reaching about...
Apart from the main shocks and spasms of violence, numerous small touches--a subtle darkening of light or deadening of sound--all carry their quiet effect and chill. Some of the best things in both films lie in the casual and exact use of particular locales. In Assault, the desolate quality of a faded section of Los Angeles is captured perfectly in the disconsolate look of a parking lot, a few haggard palm trees, and a grim, sloping street, and there is a similarly good, throwaway treatment of leafy suburban lawns in Halloween...
...added that there are no exact figures kept on how many jobs have left the state, "probably because the state finds it embarrassing...
...voice throughout the three-story brownstone on Beacon St., the Boston Church of Scientology. The building is not far from the Boston Common, where scientologists often greet passersby with free personality tests, designed to measure "deviation from and progress toward optimum survival" and allow one to discover the "exact barriers to a greater self-confidence...