Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVERY SPRING at Harvard for the past decade, a number of Harvard students--the exact number depends on the year--has taken to the streets in protest of Harvard's investments in American companies doing business in South Africa...
Although he has not evaluated the exact cost of providing the food. Weissbecker said yesterday that the University is unwilling to take a loss on the program...
Both politicos are talking about the same thing-this year's bevy of congressional races, 33 in the Senate and 435 in the House of Representatives, to be exact...
...major peril in transplanting mismatched bone marrow has always been a rejection problem called graft-vs.-host disease. Even with treated marrow, there is some risk. According to Dr. Richard O'Reilly of Sloan Kettering, the disease is "the exact opposite of what we talk about with kidney or heart patients. Instead of the patient rejecting the organ, the cells that go in as the transplant literally reject the patient." If unchecked, the disease eventually destroys the liver, intestine and other vital organs. Early symptoms are similar to David's: nausea, diarrhea, fever...
...manner as prescribed by Reynolds. His huge, ambitious history painting, Watson and the Shark, 1778, is a beloved American classic thanks to, not in spite of, its earnest potpourri of quotations from Titian, Raphael, the Borghese Gladiator and the Laocoon. But at the level of the portrait he was exact and forceful. The tight, heavy faces, didactic hands and subtly registered expressions of Copley's New Englanders read like indexes of American character, and his painting of Thomas and Sarah Mifflin (1773) is one of the great 18th century images of the enlightened bourgeois...