Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...action--"as soldier, war correspondent and public servant in high places. One sometimes has the feeling that the man has skipped a century, harking back to less pedestrian and comfort-loving times, to older and more tested virtues. He restores to the leadership of Britain the nobleman, in its exact sense of being a man and being noble...
Technology also promotes democracy--the exact opposite of what Orwell foresaw. The fax machine helped bring down communism, and the Net makes state control of information impossible. Even in free countries, citizens have new powers to communicate with and about their elected rulers. A.J. Liebling said that freedom of the press was guaranteed only to those who own one. Now almost anyone...
...They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains Bruce Taylor, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government, arguing that the rule applies "the exact same indecency standard" the Justices said violated the First Amendment when they rejected it for cyberspace...
Paden says the Square has a variety of buildingstyles but declines to comment on the exact stylethat the Board tries to maintain in the Square...
There was no need for the anonymous quote proclaiming the campus-wide nature of the issue and criticizing the University for its tardy response. Many people on campus were saying the exact same thing on record that day; the use of anonymity in this situation only serves to detract from The Crimson's integrity in reporting...