Word: inexact
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...even when he loses in the fine print. At press conferences, reporters hesitate to appear too fractious at pinning him down, which has hitherto made for softer questioning. No one wants to return to the abrasiveness of the recent past. But the press defaults on its job when casual, inexact presidential explanations and televised staged events are not balanced by tougher-minded reporting...
...these sentinels of the atmosphere have proved invaluable watchdogs. Their advance warnings of hurricanes and tornadoes have saved countless lives and billions of dollars in property. Only this winter the satellites predicted the blizzard in the Northeast and major coastal storms in California. Though meteorology remains inexact, the flood of images from space has made today's 24-hour weather forecasts at least twice as accurate as those of pre-satellite days...
...Maybe some have misinterpreted what I have said on a number of occasions. My own education is in economics, and I therefore feel, not that I am a master of economics but that I understand the shortcomings, some of them, of the science itself. It's an inexact science. The law requires, for example, that in our budgeting we must, for the sake of the Congress, project our budgets out five years and what the deficits or surpluses will be. I don't think any economist...
...words and phrases of power fly like intercontinental missiles, finding targets both intended and accidental within minutes of launching. The analogy, mercifully, is inexact: declarations sometimes can be corrected in flight or even called back. Yet each year, in our taut environment of colliding political interests and swelling military arsenals, careless words grow more dangerous and create an alarming impact on strained alliances or suspicious adversaries...
...whom they believed "had the capability to give out more than $50 without a real problem," Cominsky said. They do not use any financial background records when selecting these seniors, Cominsky said, but choose them by word-of-mouth. "There's nothing from the front office. It's very inexact and subjective...