Word: exacting
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...matter who is orchestrating the violence, the U.S. hopes to calm things down by rapidly turning over to Iraqis more responsibility for policing their country. State Department officials note that this has always been the ultimate exit strategy. But Bush's team has long been divided over the exact approach. Before the war, there was a contentious debate about the role of Iraqi security forces once major fighting ended. The State Department and the CIA pushed hard for a strategy that would remove only the top layers of Iraq's army and keep most of the rank-and-file intact...
THERE'S A NEW $20 BILL OUT THAT CHANGES COLOR FROM COPPER TO GREEN. DOES THAT LOOK LIKE REAL MONEY TO YOU? [He laughs] It is real money. It's different for a very important reason--it's much more difficult to counterfeit because the exact shades are almost impossible to reproduce...
Columbia cornerback Prosper Nwokocha, who reeled in both interceptions for the Lions in the closing minutes of the fourth quarter, came into Saturday’s game with a mission—to exact revenge on the coach and program he felt had scorned him in the recruiting process...
Even those who agree on the wisdom of a formal program are conflicted about the exact direction such a program should take...
Their AOL instant messenger screennames—which they’ve both had since high school—are the exact same combination of initials, names and hockey number. “It’s kinda scary,” Lannon says. “There have always been little things like that that kind of throw...