Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...grins Elsie Berger, 72, at being named the first Horsewoman of the Year by Horseman and Fair World magazine. She was certainly a long shot, for men had won the honor the previous 24 years. Starting with little more than a dream-a mare named Niagara Dream, to be exact-Berger turned a mom-and-pop stable into a racing powerhouse. Her ticket to the winner's circle was Niatross, a strapping bay regarded as the swiftest standard-bred in the history of the sport. In two years, he took top laurels on 37 of 39 trips...
...oldest specimen in the current Vatican exhibit is a Liber Diurnus Romanorum Pontificum that dates from the late 8th century and establishes regulations, worthy of the Pentagon, for the preparation and maintenance of ecclesiastical documents. But the exact origin of the Vatican Archives is unknown. As early as 303 Emperor Diocletian decreed that everything accumulated until that time be destroyed. In 410 the Visigoths stormed Rome, and the city burned for three days. The Vandals sacked it in 455, the Saracens...
This is an exact comparison. However, I believe that President Assad is not a fool, and that he understands the relative strength of Syria and Israel...
...dissidents and artists seemed to climax in a carefully calibrated drive for greater party discipline and ideological conformity. China-watchers were reluctant to read more into the latest crackdown than an attempt by the party leadership to prevent liberalization from getting out of control while it determines the exact place Mao should have in history. Said one Western diplomat in Peking, paraphrasing the late Chairman: "This government may still believe that they should let a hundred flowers bloom, but they don't feel they want one hundred...
...boasts the exact zone defense that Northeastern slowed the Crimson within the first half yesterday, and the Rams will be looking to knock off the number three ranked team in the nation...