Word: exactingly
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Even if true, the exact nature and extent of that link is unclear. Is the effect of watching TV violence brief or lasting? Is TV as important a factor in fostering societal violence as economic poverty, bad schools and broken homes? And in any event, is it really possible--or desirable--to manage kids' exposure to a cultural environment that can never be entirely beneficial or benign? From gangster movies in the '30s to horror comics and rock 'n' roll in the '50s, pop culture has always been strewn with pitfalls for youngsters. Sheltering kids from such things is largely...
...Rush Limbaugh," Schinella says. "I like to get the exact numbers...
...There is broad consensus that standardized test scores can be valuable as one factor, among several, in helping to assess candidates for admission.... The correlation between SAT scores and future academic success, however, is far from exact. It is not uncommon for individuals to outperform (or underperform) what the tests 'predict'--often by significant margins. In addition, the predictive power of the tests diminishes over time...
...officials said that although the volume of the spill is known to be under 1,000 gallons, they cannot determine the exact amount spilled...
...midpoint paychecks for men and women their age. It also happens that their part of Indiana is the population center of the U.S. Since no real-life couple is truly typical, however, I have created the fictional Medians, going by Census figures, to give a sense of the exact middle of American life. In ways good and bad, the Medians' life is far different from the previous generation's. To gain some perspective, one must look back to 1970 to see how their parents lived when they were about the same...