Word: exacts
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Call him Dieter. Do not expect much in the way of personal data -- his exact age, his address, his last name. As far as Dieter is concerned, the only fact that has any meaning these days is that until a few months ago, he was a member of the Staatssicherheitsdienst, the now defunct secret-police force known and reviled by East Germans as the Stasi. Once employment by the elite Stasi was a way of life. Now it is the curse of Dieter's existence. "Everybody has forgotten that we worked to make this country safe," he says. "We were...
Late one night over Spring Break, I was trekking back alone from the deserted Yard to my dorm, Greenough. I tried to remember the number of times that I had made the exact same hike at the exact same time. It was a very big number...
Vargas Llosa is not the most natural of candidates. In style, he is the exact opposite of incumbent Alan Garcia Perez, a fiery speaker whose high- profile antics wore thin as he ran the Peruvian economy into the ground. When Garcia tried in 1987 to nationalize the banks, Vargas Llosa successfully rallied against the move. He has been in the limelight ever since. In fact, the handsome 54-year-old novelist is openly disdainful of the occupation that engages him. "Politics is intimately related to human mediocrity," Vargas Llosa observes wryly. So far, this attitude has been to his advantage...
Brachman says that Response's advantage over a more general group is "not that we give better advice, we give more exact advice...
...arts staff, as part of the Editorial Board, believes in analytical coverage. Just giving the facts is an empty gesture. Although arts coverage is more subjective than news coverage, the artistic endeavors themselves have never been exact sciences...