Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...leftist and no admirer of the U.S. -- well, in a perverse way, that makes American intervention easier to defend against possible cries of Yanqui imperialism. Instead of overthrowing a populist reformer to install a military dictatorship friendly to the U.S., Washington will be doing the exact opposite...
...Hillary Clinton. So, maybe Quayle wasn't that big a criminal after all. In his recent interview, he commented that he had not meant to criticize the single mothers, but rather dead-beat dads, and only meant that a two parent environment was healthier for a child the exact thing the Clinton are saying...
...exact nature of the contamination is unknown, and few people working in the building know of the room's closing. Efforts yesterday to reach Marla King, superintendent of the Freshman Union, and Dean of Freshmen Elizabeth S. Nathans were unsuccessful...
What happened next came so swiftly that people watching from the ground disagreed on the exact sequence. But as best their stories could be pieced together, the Boeing 737-300's two jet engines spooled down, and smoke trailed from the one on the left wing. The plane rolled belly-up, banked and fell nose first, almost vertically, through 6,000 ft. of sky. Witnesses could not agree whether it exploded before it plowed into a hillside or on impact...
...public's growing distrust of its leaders. The law accepted the assumption that an Administration should not investigate itself. It understood that a government deriving its legitimacy from the consent of the governed must not only act forthrightly but appear to do so. Indeed, the Sentelle panel adopted this exact rationale to ax Fiske, who had been appointed by Clinton's Justice Department. The statute, the judges said, "contemplates an apparent as well as an actual independence on the part of the counsel." That apparent independence was compromised when Sentelle met with Faircloth and Helms...