Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...could afford them on his salary. At another, a bureaucrat reported that his department had increased production that month "around 5% or 6%." Zhu broke in: "Comrade Bureau Director, is it 5% or 6%? Is it 5.1% or 5.9%? When it comes to statistics, we must be very exact...
...They're told either scramble their dirty pictures or put them on when there are fewer kids in the audience," explains BRUCE TAYLOR, president of the National Law Center for Children and Families. The Playboy Channel has sued the government, arguing that the rule applies "the exact same indecency standard" the Justices said violated the First Amendment when they rejected it for cyberspace...
...there's no cause for alarm -- at least, not until 2002, when the rock will be close enough for radar to detect its exact course. That leaves three decades for scientists to decide whether or not to nuke the thing -- and for Hollywood to produce a plethora of asteroid Armageddon flicks...
...tried to think of the intent of the character Oyamaifat (I don't remember his exact name). I realized there was a lot of making-fun going on during the play about male/female issues, Latino machismo, etc. I tried to make excuses for having the Jewish character contrived as such, but I could not. They were making fun of an ethnicity, a race. It frankly surprises me that students at Harvard University, who are supposedly so "educated" and welcoming of diversity, are really so ignorant...
...leapt into action and launched a full-scale investigation. Trouble is, they don?t even know what was taken. ?The exact nature of what the papers were and whether anything is missing is the subject of the investigation,? said a State Department official who -- understandably -- preferred to remain anonymous. Next question: Could the brown tweed man be tied to a Washington Times report that the feds are also investigating the passing of information to an Iraqi agent? The spy, according to the Times, procured information about U.S. air strikes, then imminent. However, given the trumpeting of attack plans...