Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...major assignment before going into deep space, where, after its power runs out, it will drift forever in silence. By measuring the flow of solar particles, Voyager will seek to determine where the sun's influence ends and that of the stars begins -in short, to establish the exact outer boundary of our solar system. Still, as exciting as such quests may seem, they come at a time of dwindling Government interest in space exploration...
...been living with a national humiliation since the day the hostages were seized. That humiliation would be compounded if, a year later, the results of a U.S. presidential election were to depend to any significant degree on vote by the fanatically anti-American Majlis 6,500 miles away. The exact impact of Iran's blackmail on the U.S. political process may be as difficult to assess after Nov. 4 as it was to predict before, but the humiliation is no less acute...
Such paintings suggest the strength of the Neue Sachlichkeit tendency to paint a world beyond the spectator's control - not Leger's confidence in technology, but glimpses of an airless place, always the city, with looming buildings, threatening, gray and crystalline, where the exact divisions between things seem to mirror the divisions and conflicts of class that concerned many of the painters. In particular, they obsessed Grosz. One of his friends called him "a Bolshevik in painting, nauseated by painting." This was not quite true, for although Grosz once declared that compared with the practical tasks of political...
Anne R. Ungar '84, a Biochemistry. major, said the main attraction of the program is "flexibility in my fourth year." "I would be taking the same exact courses. I just get out of some Gen Ed and distribution requirements," Craig Werner '84, said...
...second binge looked like a mirror image of the first, but just substitute the name Richard Berkman for Smith. A hard cross pass to Ayrault in almost the exact same position made it easy, and Polar Bear goaltender Keith Brown just watched the ball fly into the net at the far post...