Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...works well. What is produced is the exact opposite of what is intended by the original anti-Communists. The Communists themselves cannot do it nearly as successfully. From Batista to Diem to Lon Nol to Somoza to Marcos and beyond, Communist subversion has not been as effective as American support...
...accomplishment of Chu and his team did nothing to dampen their competitors' enthusiasm. Indeed, the effect was just the reverse. In order to protect his patent, Chu refused to disclose the exact composition of his new material before the formal report was published in the March 2 Physical Review Letters, but other scientists thought they could easily guess its makeup and went to work...
Howard Baker is unique in nothing so much as his gentle normalcy. At 5 ft. 6 in. and weighing "too much" (exact poundage is now a state secret), he has run through every diet conceived by man, from cottage cheese to rice, and been defeated by them all. But he struggles on good-naturedly in the White House mess. He wears button-down shirts that rumple spectacularly, and he is still followed by the old gag that somebody must wrinkle his suits before he dresses for work...
...teams are not only changing their uniforms' basic design to an older style, but their design philosophy is also going back to another era. More teams are wearing the exact same uniforms both home and on the road, except the road uniforms are tinted gray instead of a team color. This has been the case for years with half of the teams in baseball, but more teams have joined the bandwagon in the past few years...
Compact discs are the latest technological breakthrough, and by all accounts they appear to be here to stay. New recording techniques have allowed engineers to record the sounds instruments make in exact numbers (thus a "digital" recording) and reproduce those sounds more or less exactly. CDs, almost twice as expensive as good-quality records and cassettes, eliminate the static and wear and tear of other sound reproduction media...