Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Daniel likes to talk about presidents because he's known a lot--10 to be exact, 'a figure he shrinks from in almost false modesty, given his predilection for name-dropping. "Anyone my age who has hung around Washington long enough could do the same. It's nothing special to have known ten presidents." But Daniel lets us all know all the same: indeed, the name dropping would be boorish if he didn't take such unabashed delight in the practice. If anything Daniel is out for a little...
Crimson Business Manager Jonathan M. Weintraub '85 said that the new policy was likely, to hurt The Crimson financially, though he could not estimate the exact amount of the losses...
...countries, the rich were investing their money overseas. Says Richard Mattione, a research associate at the Brookings Institution: "Individuals and firms did the very sensible thing: they moved money out of the country. It was a mistake of government policy to have such an extremely overvalued exchange rate." The exact amount of this flight capital is unknown, but experts believe that since 1979 as much as $70 billion has left Latin America. That is well over one-third of the debt accumulated during that period...
...earned her $3 a week and tried not to spend it all in one place. Then in 1965 things began to move fast. The merged Dayton Journal Herald offered her a twice-a-week column, and only three weeks later, the Newsday syndicate took her up. The phrase is exact; in journalistic terms, syndication is equivalent to ascending to heaven on a pillar of cloud. By the end of her first year, she had 36 papers, including Newsday, the Denver Post, the Minneapolis Star and the Atlanta Constitution. She began to be recognized in supermarkets. One day in 1967, Bombeck...
...Soviet bluster, some argue, may be little more than a negotiating tactic. This view is held by many in the Reagan Administration. By deliberately fostering an atmosphere of tension, the argument goes, the Kremlin might exact concessions it could not gain through diplomatic channels. Given Moscow's almost pathological antipathy for Reagan, the Soviets could also be trying to influence the outcome of the U.S. elections by allowing the Democrats to paint the President as a man not to be trusted with his finger on the nuclear button. One significant danger of the present situation, according to an American specialist...