Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Punctuality: Together people are on time. They get the exact seats they want for lectures. They never run after the shuttle bus unless it's leaving early. They get to section before seven minutes after the hour. They arrive early for lunch dates with friends and even manage to snag tables in crowded dining halls. They finish and hand in things on time, such as, oh, theses. Extensions are more trouble than they're worth to these people...
...Although exact numbers were not availableyesterday, Lewis said she thinks the share ofstudents admitted from public, private andparochial schools is similar to last year's,"roughly two-thirds from public schools, and 30percent from parochial or private schools...
...many opponents of term limits contend. The turnover in Congress was far higher during the latter part of the 19th century than in the decades since World War II. Yet the 1870s and 1880s were characterized by weak presidents and a dominant Congress, while recent decades have seen the exact opposite. Clearly, no relationship exists between the power of Congress and term limits...
...when the owners were willing to pay the players lots of money. Baseball attendance has increased throughout the 1980s and early 1990s and the game, at least in raw, unsentimental, cash-generated terms, was more popular than ever the day before this current strike. (August 18, 1994, to be exact...
Many people flatly refuse to believe Social Security was sold to the populace as social insurance, with disastrous effect. Legions of people take it as an article of faith that each person gets back in benefits exactly as much as he or she has paid in contributions during the working years. Some seem to think that somewhere in the depths of the system is an account bearing each person's name and number, containing the exact amount of taxes paid over a lifetime, in cash or readily cashable securities, to be paid back penny for penny on retirement. This idea...