Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...bitter confrontations, his three great powers were stripped away and Cannon himself was forced to step down. It was the beginning of the long erosion of congressional power. Some current suggestions for reform have an unmistakable whiff of Cannonism to them, notably Carl Albert's plan to exact "loyalty oaths" from new Democratic members of the Rules Committee. Cannon himself would have been horrified by such halfway measures. When he retired from politics in 1923 (and became TIME'S first cover subject), TIME summed him up as "the supreme dictator of the Old Guard. Never...
...sustained for years to come. Marriages are expected to average 2,200,000 a year through the 1970s, v. 1,800,000 annually in the 1960s, and each wedding creates a new family that is a prospective buyer or renter of a home or apartment of its own. The exact size of the 1973 decline in housing starts depends partly on how deeply Washington cuts subsidies for public housing. The Office of Management and Budget, fighting to hold down federal spending, has proposed an 18-month moratorium on all Government commitments to finance new public-housing projects. Housing and Urban...
...always negotiated "seriously" and have repeatedly stated their willingness to sign the nine-point treaty negotiated last fall. Blum fails to mention the simple fact that it was the U.S. government that suddenly imposed new conditions for settlement and resorted to tactics reminiscent of Guernica and Hiroshima to brutally exact those concessions...
...Dictionary of National Biography, and Julia Pattle, a Pre-Raphelite beauty, Virginia watched her father wear out first his wife, then her step-daughter, with his incessant, self-pitying demands that they attend to his comfort. From Bell's account of the Stephen household, it becomes clear how exact an imaginative rendition of her own childhood is the Ramsey menage of To the lighthouse. Her mother's death in 1895, when Virginia was 13, was the first in a series of premature crises. Her half-sister died two years later, through Leslie Stephen lasted until 1904. Virginia's mental health...
TIME'S Board of Economists: Sizing Up the Year AWARE that their science is not an exact one, economists are frequently unhappy at having their forecasts accepted as gospel. Still, TIME's Board of Economists has had a remarkable record of accuracy...