Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Drug Enforcement Administration, which considered Carrillo its No. 1 target, confirmed that the corpse's fingerprints matched those known to have come from the fabled criminal. Mexican physicians then conducted tests that matched DNA taken from the body to genetic material from Carrillo's mother and three sisters. The exact cause of Carrillo's death is still unclear (thought to be a heavy cocaine user, he may have died of a postoperative heart attack), and Mexican authorities have not fully ruled out the possibility of foul play...
...NASA programs, the Vikings cost nearly $3 billion (measured in 1997 dollars) and were as ambitious and customized as Pathfinder is spare and off the shelf. NASA's old principle of superredundancy is reflected in the fact that there was not one but two Viking spacecraft, the second an exact replica of the first...
...warehouse is someplace in Windhoek, capital of the southern African nation of Namibia. The exact location is a closely guarded secret for the treasure it conceals is so precious that it is informally known as "white gold." Inside, in room after room, stuffed onto metal shelves that reach from floor to ceiling, are tens of tons of gleaming ivory--the tusks of African elephants carefully collected by government agents over the past seven years and stockpiled here. The cache is valued at hundreds of millions of dollars...
...rather than electing to tune in, turn on and drop out, Gen Xers are proving to be deeply competitive. Back when bumper stickers exhorted one to make love not war--in 1973, to be exact--only two-thirds of twentysomethings polled by Yankelovich agreed that "competition encourages excellence." Today 82% of their counterparts say, "I like to compete: it makes me perform better." The recent surge of extreme sports--from bungee jumping to sky surfing--is no accident. The hip slogan of the Gen X T shirt? NO FEAR. Indeed, adversity, far from discouraging youths, has given them a harder...
...results of the indoor H-Y-P meet was deja vu from the fall. The men placed third behind first-place Princeton and second-place Yale, and the women placed second behind Princeton and a good 13 points ahead of the woeful Elis. Fortunately for the men, they would exact revenge on Yale at Heps a few weeks later...