Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Taylor does not recall the exact chronology of decisions that led to U.S. takeover of the prime combat role in Viet Nam. "Those decisions," he says, "were all reached in Washington. But I was reluctant to concur in them." At the time Taylor argued that at some indeterminate point, perhaps when the number of U.S. troops reached between 100,000 and 125,000, a "Plimsoll line" would be reached: for every American soldier invested, a Vietnamese soldier would be lost. The war-weary Vietnamese, as the then ambassador saw it, would be only too glad to hand over the fighting...
Outside the U.S.. the problems are only compounded. Germans tend to be on time to the second; the English tend to be either five minutes late or five minutes early. To be too exact is to be, well, a bit Teutonic, but to be more than ten minutes late without a good excuse is inexcusably rude. In South America and the Latin countries of Europe, however, it is almost too difficult to be too late. If a hostess wants her guests to be prompt -meaning half an hour or so after the stated time-she specifies an "English hour...
Lindsay: "We have been raped and we're accused of prostitution. I have never seen any leadership so determined to exact the last pound of flesh from its opponents...
According to Chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes, "the Constitution is what the judges say it is." But saying what it is in a highly disciplined way-making exact distinctions, refining a principle to fit diverse cases-that is the high art judges are chosen to practice. Deluged with 3,500 cases a year, expected to write more than 100 often highly complex decisions, Supreme Court Justices may understandably disappoint their critics. Indeed, many critics (joined by Chief Justice Burger) endlessly urge the court to cut its workload, accept only truly vital cases and take more time for reflection...
...already managed to leave with diplomas or else they had enlisted or been drafted to return to Harvard at some later date-or, in a sizeable number of cases, not at all) were painfully aware of the fact that an even larger number of their classmates, 35 to be exact, were already dead. One classmate, in what surely must be a courageous story he is too reticent to tell, spent 14 years hospitalized as a result of wounds received during...