Word: exaction
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...Sunday, has been disputed by U.S. and NATO officials - some of whom, speaking in the same documentary, blame the limited success of the early phases of the air war on the limits imposed on it by some NATO-member governments. After all, they argue, if the Serbs knew the exact flight path of most NATO bombing sorties in the first weeks of the war (before NATO dramatically curtailed the number of officials who had access to its bombing plans), the Western alliance would have been unlikely to get away without losing a single pilot...
...that employed forced laborers in Nazi Germany or the U.S. government's payments to Japanese Americans who were wrongly interned and deprived of property during World War II. But these cases, in which payments were made directly to the victims of injustice or to their immediate families by the exact agent who harmed them, are different enough from that of American slavery to highlight why reparations for slavery are infeasible...
...past to gain wisdom, such approaches rub the public's wounds with the salt of past misdeeds, breeding mutual antagonism and hostility. While politics and race relations are thus contaminated, little progress can be made; cooperation to solve present problems is neglected in favor of zero-sum battles to exact compensation for yesterday's crimes...
After Kern made only one of her free throws, Monti tried to pull the exact same shot, but this time she was way off. But freshman guard Bree Kelley picked up the rebound, moved to the left corner, and hit a leaning, off-balance trey to cut the Columbia lead to 59-56 with 11 seconds remaining...
...interviewer was able to turn to the exact page and paragraph containing the rule, which were bookmarked...