Word: exacting
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...shelter, sanitation and medical care. And, of paramount importance, safety: the camps will be protected by as many as 10,000 soldiers from the U.S., 5,000 from Britain, 1,300 from France and 1,000 each from the Netherlands and Italy. from any attempt by Saddam Hussein to exact bloody vengeance for the Kurds' failed revolt...
...dishes, all prepared with olive oil." And the waiter had better be , on top of that information. Warns Paul Guzzardo, who runs Bice, a Milanese restaurant that has branches in both cities: "In our Beverly Hills place, people really question and challenge. Is the vinegar balsamic? What is the exact pedigree of the house wine? Is the lettuce organically grown...
...Loyola (7-4 overall), today's afternoon clash at Ohiri Field is the perfect opportunity to exact a little revenge. The Lady Greyhounds were simply not fast enough in last year's contest, falling to Harvard, 7-6, on their home turf...
...Your Chairman displayed exquisite timing," he writes about his purchase of a large stake in USAir. "I plunged into the business at almost the exact moment that it ran into severe problems." Buffett also notes his purchase since late 1989 of $440 million of RJR Nabisco junk bonds. A crazy investment? He acknowledges that he's leery of new issues of junk bonds ("The only time to buy these is on a day with no y in it"), but the RJR bonds have been traded for a while -- and Buffett says their market value has increased $150 million since...
Patiently, and with loving humor, Mistry develops a portrait of a household: Gustad savoring mock-Tennyson verses at the dinner table, telling his friends of his son's college prospects, singing The Donkey Serenade to his ailing daughter. The details of his life are wonderfully exact: a bottle of Camel Royal Blue Ink, old copies of Bertrand Russell, an 1897 edition of Barrere and Leland's Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant. And Mistry catches the pungent cadences of Indian English as they have seldom been caught before: "What everything have you told them? Always I shout and scream, while...