Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...troublesome border was drawn in 1774 when British authorities ordered a surveyor to set the line between the colonies of Canada and Vermont at the 45th parallel, the exact midline between the equator and the North Pole. Local historians have cited records of liquor rations brought along on the trip. And these explain why, they say, when the survey was through, the border was set more than a quarter of a mile too far north. But for that British rum, Derby Line would have been firmly in Canada for the past 205 years, and the border in an unsettled...
...Hedley Donovan, 65, recently retired editor-in-chief of Time Inc., to serve as a Senior Adviser to the President. Donovan will have broad responsibilities in both domestic and foreign affairs and will report directly to the President. Veteran Washington observers could not recall any exact precedent for such an assignment...
When the mechanics returned, the engine and pylon unit had shifted an almost imperceptible quarter-inch, throwing them out of exact alignment with their wing fittings. According to federal investigators, the workmen then used brute force to jam the unit into its mounting. The flange on the rear bulkhead of the pylon apparently cracked, so minutely that the fault was not detected The aircraft then flew some 100 flights before engine No. 1 ripped loose from the wing on May 25 in Chicago...
Before takeoff, Marable briefly examined several of the cardboard cartons aboard his plane; they were reassuringly marked with the imprint of the Lebanese Red Crescent, supposedly an equivalent of the Red Cross, although as it happens, no Lebanese organization by that exact name exists. Also on the plane were four passengers who carried false Jordanian and Libyan passports...
Though the crime rate for the first three months of the year rose for the city of Cambridge, University police reported last month that crime has probably stayed about the same on Harvard porperty. The police are unable to publish exact figures because their crime statistics computer broke down...