Word: exactement
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Aides to Governor Bush have accused McCain staffers of trying to exact political leverage in exchange for active campaigning on behalf of Bush and a full-throated endorsement, while McCain advisers found Bush's aides to be aloof, insisting that McCain follow the campaign's script...
...squad was a veteran team," Murphy said. "This team's the exact opposite. It's a young team and we've shown flashes of brilliance, but we didn't play like a mature football team today...
Most vegetarians will tell you their decision to cut out meat came gradually, over a period of months or even years. Lauren Butts, a high school junior from Medford, Ore., recalls the exact moment of her conversion. At age 13, while traveling in France with her family, Butts, a horse owner, accidentally ordered horsemeat from a restaurant menu. Though not versed in the differences between cheval and boeuf, she did manage to "figure it out in time" to avoid eating the burger. But something clicked. "It made sense then," she says. "There was no way I was going...
...movie, for instance. When you first heard that Saturday Night Live's mega-popular Ladies Man sketch-generally regarded as one of the few remaining SNL sketches that are actually funny-was being turned into a movie, I'll wager the inflated cost of a movie ticket that this exact thought, or some variation thereof, flashed across your brain...
...exact analogy is crucial because the 1979 Supreme Court decision finding "numbers dialed" to be unprotected by the Fourth Amendment relied heavily on the technical details of the existing telephone network. The Court noted that the numbers dialed did not reveal the purpose of the call, the identities of either caller or recipient, or even whether the call was completed and a communication took place. Yet none of these qualities are shared by e-mail addresses or Web links, both of which the FBI would like to include under Carnivore's surveillance. A phone number might tell me who called...