Word: exacts
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Professor of Physics Cumrun Vafa says that though the exact form of the SU(5) theory is under debate, "Georgi's and Glashow's work is pioneering in the field and has greatly influenced the thinking of physicists on unification...
...side, shrewdly pre-empted the buzz by telling reporters that his 16-year marriage to the former Hillary Rodham had been less than perfect. Whatever it was that he was admitting -- and he refused to be specific -- he said he was proud of still being married. As to the exact nature of his problems, Clinton asserted they were no one else's business. The revelation was received as a welcome exercise in truth telling, and the issue faded from view...
...proper test for the journalist is not whether he thinks the information is politically relevant, but whether he thinks it would be politically relevant to a significant number of voters. Obviously this isn't an exact science. My own sense is that the current line is somewhere between a dalliance or two many years ago and more energetic misbehavior recently. More forthright testing of that line might produce some pleasant surprises for those journalists who fear that their fellow citizens are too prudish for the country's good. At the least, it would force the citizenry to decide how much...
...days after the bombing of the Beirut Marine barracks, we invaded Grenada, a tiny, tiny island whose exact problems and import to the world are still entirely mysterious. But it was 1983, the economy was recovering, and the fiasco in Lebanon was not that big a problem. A few thousand American troops, a few casualties, one terrible Clint Eastwood movie...
...independence on the part of the Soviet republics. That move has now killed the union completely, forced the resignation of Gorbachev, and has given birth to a Commonwealth of Independent States that is more of an alliance than a nation. To fail so totally as to bring about the exact opposite of what you want -- that calls for more than run-of-the-mill incompetence. It requires a kind of perverse genius that will make the Moscow plotters memorable long after the state they betrayed has faded into history...