Word: exacting
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...position on the protests in China is that the students had steadfastly refused to compromise. Their refusals, the position goes, exacerbated the tensions, forcing the reluctant government to use force as a last resort. The records in the "Tiananmen Papers," however, show in fact that what happened was the exact opposite...
...mouth as if to offer advice, but keeps silent. The crew looks increasingly baffled, while Zhang, implacable, works to reconcile the chaos before him with his well-ordered mental storyboard: positioning Maggie Cheung's fingers on the bed, adjusting the speed at which the blinds raise, finding the exact camera angle and revelatory moment when Cheung and Leung come into full focus. Finally, as the minutes tick by, he just sits and thinks. The only movement in the room is the gentle swaying of the blinds - four heartbeats. But when shooting resumes, he explodes. "You guys," he wails, looking...
...very short period of time since the New Year began--a span of five games, to be exact--Harvard has seemingly experienced the full spectrum of basketball competence and emotion...
...process of discovering antimicrobials should speed up, thanks to the rapid sequencing of the genomes of disease-causing organisms. Among the latest conquests are the bacteria responsible for causing syphilis and leprosy. The genome of the parasite that causes malaria is also beginning to yield its secrets, including the exact genetic mutations that confer chloroquine resistance. Scientists are beginning to exploit what they know about the parasite's life cycle after it invades the red blood cells of the human body. Daniel Goldberg, a malaria researcher at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute in Chevy Chase, Md., is trying to figure...
...meant to have pay toilets, we would have been born with exact change," one of the protester's posters read...