Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Thursday by Egypt's Islamic Jihad, a band of Muslims seeking to depose Egypt's secular government. The group vowed revenge against the U.S. for helping Albania arrest and deport three of its members to Egypt in June. A larger, related organization, the Islamic Group, has long sworn to exact vengeance for the conviction and life sentence imposed on its spiritual leader, Sheik Omar Abdel Rahman, for his involvement in the 1993 World Trade Center bombing...
...hours later, the President uttered a grim public warning to the terrorists: "We will use all the means at our disposal to bring those responsible to justice, no matter what or how long it takes." The U.S. has long believed that the only way to curtail terrorism is to exact justice by capturing and convicting individual culprits and retaliating against nations that sponsor them. Declared National Security Council spokesman P.J. Crowley: "We don't forgive, we don't forget...
Hendricks went so far as to compare stripping to an art form and the men who come to watch them "perform" to visitors to an art museum. A Maplethorpe exhibit, to be exact...
Boswell has a case. Consider the stats: On average, the opposing team gets about two earned runs a game on Maddux--2.03, to be exact, since 1992, which is the lowest mark over such a long period in the postwar era. In 1994 his earned-run average was just 1.56. So far this year, it's 1.57. Sandy Koufax never had such a good year. Nor did Nolan Ryan. In fact, only two pitchers in modern baseball have: Bob Gibson (1.12 in 1968) and Dwight Gooden...
Royce Clayton, 60, who has worked at the same exact machine for 23 years, goes fishing in his mind every day. That hook he brings down off the crane, to load the underground elbow of the hydrant onto a machine that bores holes into it, might as well be the hook at the end of a line he drops into Guntersville Lake. No fewer than 256 times a day, every day, he drops his line...