Word: exact
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...MSNBC "talking heads" have finally shifted from discussions of sex to the military and Kosovo, the "Flynt Report" will only catapult us into another round of lies and national embarrassment-if its contents can even be believed. Indeed, Flynt's publication is nothing more than a partisan ploy to exact revenge on the right-wingers in Congress that should be ignored by both politicians and sex scandal followers alike...
...operable television transmitter. Moreover, Farnsworth's old teacher, Tolman, not only testified that Farnsworth had conceived the idea when he was a high school student, but also produced the original sketch of an electronic tube that Farnsworth had drawn for him at that time. The sketch was almost an exact replica of an Image Dissector...
...thus, in one of the keenest insights in the history of mathematics, Godel devised a remarkable statement that said simply, "X is not an M.P. number" where X is the exact number we read when the statement "X is not an M.P. number" is translated into Martian math notation. Think about this for a little while until you get it. Translated into Martian notation, the statement "X is not an M.P. number" will look to us like just some huge string of digits--a very big numeral. But that string of Martian writing is our numeral for the number...
...term "living wage" seems not to have an exact economic definition. The campaign uses it to mean enough money to "live decently and raise [one's] family." It seems generally accepted to mean enough wages for a worker to live a safe distance above the poverty line--including non-"basic" costs like child care, housing and transportation...
...After losing in the playoffs last year, the Golden Gophers have been unable to exact any revenge in this year's regular season. Their two meetings with the Wildcats have not produced a winner...