Word: exactingly
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...agreement. To get around this, the U.S. had previously proposed raising the Vladivostok limits to allow both countries to add some of the new weapons to their arsenals. The Soviets rejected this proposal. The new scheme, advanced by Brezhnev, would lower the Vladivostok ceiling by a few hundred; the exact number is secret, but one possibility is to drop the figure to 2,200. In deploying cruise missiles, accordingly, the U.S. would have to stay within this new limit...
With training techniques and equipment ever more sophisticated and timing more exact, alpine skiing today resembles Formula One auto racing: runs get faster and the risks bigger. Victory or defeat depends on a few hundredths of a second. This season alone two skiers have crashed to death in international competition. Fierce national rivalry, especially in Europe, and a multimillion-dollar ski industry have turned top skiers into human missiles, whose streamlining is tested in wind tunnels. The choice of wax for polyethylene ski bottoms before each run is a state secret. Innsbruck may produce top speeds of nearly 85 m.p.h...
...dearth of graduates who go out and dedicate their lives to eradicating social injustice, redistributing social benefits more equitably, and championing the cause of the "ordinary" citizen. Take, for example, a recent study by the Office of Career Services and Off-Campus Learning. It indicates that almost the exact same numbers of students in any given class say at graduation that they will enter various occupations as when the class entered. So, while the Harvard educational process may influence individuals in a class, it does not appear to alter the eventual occupational distribution of that class. But, even if each...
Dame Agatha Christie made more profit out of murder than any woman since Lucrezia Borgia. One estimate of her total earnings from more than a half-century of writing is $20 million. But the exact amount remains a mystery not likely to be solved even when her will is read. Her royalty arrangements and trusts would tax the brains of her two famous detectives, M. Hercule Poirot and Miss Jane Marple. In addition, Agatha Christie had already given away millions to her family. Her only grandson, Mathew Prichard, 32, was eight years old when she presented him with sole rights...
Freshman center George Hughes gave his teammates an assist Saturday (five to be exact) as the Crimson jumped out to a 6-1 lead after 13:24 of the second period. Hughes, the squad's top scorer with 20 points, set up the first five goals, then won three crucial faceoffs in the final minute as the rallying Friars pressed for the tying goal with six attackers...