Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...charge per meal? To homeless: +$7.50 (remember, a meal is a meal, regardless of who eats it); to students: no change; to HUDS: -$1.50; to society: +$6. Suddenly, society benefits by quite a bit. Simple theft has proven $12 more efficient to society than the current program, with the exact same benefit to the homeless...
...room with my brother since he was born four years after me and I was ready to stake out my own space to fit my preadolescent needs. I had mapped out the spare room since I was 11. I presented my parents with color-coded floor plans indicating the exact location for the television, stereo, private bathroom, and four-poster bed in the 15-by-10-foot room. By the time the room was ready, my father and uncles discovered that the room was too small and cluttered to accomodate a door...
...usual with discussions of the deficit, the exact way that this financial Apocalypse will come to pass was skipped over. Instead, the wonderful new term "intergenerational morality" was used, in solemn tones, to describe the moral crime implicit in deficit spending...
China certainly has the credentials to be the United States' chief rival: A huge military force and a strong economy. Its annual gross domestic product is growing twice as fast as ours, and its `standing army,' whose exact size is hard to pin down, surely dwarfs our volunteer force. The United States hasn't negotiated nuclear arms reductions with China the way it has with the former Soviet Union. In a conventional or nuclear showdown, the United States' only military advantage could be technology...
...Alberti wants to create cows even better than Twinkie, and the only way to do that is by constantly reshuffling the genetic deck with a fresh supply of genes. Indeed, rather than a major advance in livestock breeding, cloning taken to extremes could prove to be the exact opposite -- a big step, all right, but in the wrong direction...