Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...University Police Department (HUPD) makes no special arrangements for the week preceding Commencement. However, on Commencement day, all University police will be on duty, HUPD captain Jack W. Morse said last week, adding that the University hires Cambridge police "to supplement Harvard officers." Morse declined to comment on the exact number of officers, who will be working at Commencement...
Many of us were brought up to believe that fair play, respect for authority and self-discipline are manly virtues. With his behavior, Billy Martin instills the exact opposite in this traditional American sport...
...Habib's exact proposals remained a secret, it was assumed that his peace formula rested on two reciprocal concessions...
Doing business abroad can be an invitation to agony. From the uncertain politics of such advanced countries as France and Canada, to the nationalizations and revolutions that have convulsed Iran and Nicaragua, a lack of sensitivity to local conditions can exact a high penalty from the unprepared businessman...
...even Delacroix, or that the work of Wilhelm Leibl or Hans Thoma might be anything better than an able but provincial reaction to that of Gustave Courbet. It was not always so; last century, Munich influenced American artists even more than Paris. There are plenty of parallels, if not exact concordances, between the infinite longings expressed in German romantic art and the sense of pantheistic immanence, God-over-the-Hudson, that ran through American nature painting in the mid-19th century. But since World War II, for obvious reasons, the links were broken and discarded-especially by those blind savants...