Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...parachute as well as other equipment apparently abandoned by the pilot, and that he had instructed the regional military commander that O'Grady should be protected and, if found, sent immediately to Belgrade, where he would be released. Milosevic told a friend that he had plotted the pilot's exact coordinates for Frasure and instructed local commanders to refrain from shooting at planes sent to the rescue. Frasure sent a flash message to Washington relaying his conversation with the President, but the information remained in diplomatic channels and did not reach U.S. intelligence officials until two days later. By that...
...doubt Hopper saw something like this, yet not very like it. The space would not have been measured by his three exact and conscious patches of red: the armchair, the woman's dress, the lampshade. The figures would have been remote. In the picture they are large, and we are close to them, outside their window. You don't for a moment imagine Hopper on a scaffold outside the window or spying on the couple through a long lens. And yet the painting does evoke the pleasure, common to bird and people watchers, of seeing while being unnoticed; it does...
Merry Touborg, a spokesperson for the Office of Human Resources, said that although she can't comment on the exact nature of the negotiations, benefits is the main issue...
According to Pasquarello, police attempted to calculate the exact speed of the car at the time of the accident and determine if there were any obstacles blocking the driver's view...
...hurt; nothing went wrong. O'Grady and the men who saved him are genuine heroes. This vest-pocket Gulf War was in every respect the exact opposite of the conflict that gave rise to it. And for one chimerical moment, the rescue pierced the frustrations of the Bosnian conflict-where clear-cut successes, decisive actions, brilliant displays of military heroism have all been in short supply. In Bosnia, on most days, there is only murk, brutality and death...