Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most strikingly, demonstrators at Columbia recently sat in front of a building for three weeks protesting their university's investment in companies doing business in South Africa. On the exact same issue, Harvard students held a few rallies and then went home to their ivory towers...
First he glanced left and right to make sure the coast was clear. Then be casually picked up a New York times and swittly snatched a copy of The Harvard Crimson Confidential Guide to Student Courses immediately burying it in the paper. Having carried the exact change in his hand he quickly paid...
...bacterium involved in the current outbreak appears to be resistant to antibiotics. Because it can remain dormant and is also contagious, health experts fear that as many as 10,000 people could eventually contract the infection, which causes vomiting, diarrhea and fever. While the search goes on for the exact source of the bug, Jewel has shut its suspect dairy and removed all its dairy products from its 217 outlets. Workers at several Chicago-area stores poured thousands of gallons of milk down storm sewers, creating concern that this might allow the bacteria to spread. Jewel cleaned up the potential...
...lying 18 years ago, chiefly to help identify patients who were lying to therapists. He does not feel that his findings are conclusive but thinks that someday it may be possible to isolate emotions and authenticate them by their own signs. "If you could pick up specific emotions, exact emotions," he says, "it would be much more accurate than lie detectors, which have only limited value the way ^ they are currently used." It would also present some painful problems. "What would life be like if we couldn't lie at all," he wonders, "if there were no way we could...
...denominator of kindness. Without a reputation to enhance (except in France) and lacking the really big talents that would bring Nielsen points by their very presence. Lewis has to rely on a barrage of sympathy-grabbing images to make people even a little concerned. USA for Africa does the exact opposite, attempting to emotionally shield people from the problem while taking credit for solving it. And while a starving African might not care who paid his food bill, for a performers to entice money out of rabid fans and then allow the media to place a halo over has head...