Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Benefits Task Force's plan of action adduced general statements of concern and values from faculty and others, but it never contemplated seeking faculty comment on its detailed recommendations," Caves and Abernathy wrote. "Neither the Faculty Advisory Group nor the Faculty Council was informed of the exact options considered or recommended...
...name of a DEA informant to the junta and sabotaged a DEA survey of opium yields by revealing to the government that the CIA -- distrusted by the Burmese -- had secretly given the DEA the funds to conduct it. The ultimate insult was discovering Huddle's cable to Washington relaying exact quotes from a phone conversation Horn had made from his home. Horn knew of another instance where the CIA had bugged a DEA agent, and concluded the same had been done...
Always setting the example, always elevating his game another notch, Coughlin assumes the role of captain in the exact sense that it was established...
...meanwhile if you're feeling particularly spiteful toward an old professor or especially eager to exact revenge on an administrator, there's always the old stuff-the-gooey-egg-in-the-mailbox bit. And when you see them earnestly pontificating in Monday's lecture, you can picture their look of shock when they open their mailbox the next morning...
Exasperated after the close of a Congress paralyzed by frequent Republican filibusters, a few Senate alumni have risen to take action -- and exact pledges of reform. Action, Not Gridlock, a bipartisan group, led by former Sens. William Proxmire (D-Wis.) and Barry Goldwater (R-Ariz.), wrote to this year's Senate candidates asking them to announce their support for a ban on filibusters. "Senators are elected to make decisions, not to block decision-making," it reads. Senate offices began kicking around the idea today, although no official responses emerged...