Word: exactingly
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...child is a precise metaphysician. He (or she) writes down name, house number, street, town, state, ZIP code, country . . . and then, to be exact, "Planet Earth, the Solar System, the Galaxy, the Universe." Creation is an onion with many skins, all layering outward from the child's self. If he gets lost in the galaxy, he can find the way back, can fly through the concentric circles to his own house -- from outermost remoteness to innermost home. Nostalgia means the nostos algos, the agony to return home. What got broken long ago in Ernest was his charts and instruments...
...role of entertainment as a multiplier is probably as great as, or greater than, any other industry's," observes Charles Waite, chief of the U.S. Census Bureau of Economic Programs. "Unfortunately, there's no exact way to measure its effect." But if the American entertainment industry's boundaries were drawn broadly enough to include all or most of its related businesses, some economists believe, it could be credited with generating more than $500 billion a year in sales...
Later, he refers to "the time he told me and a friend as we stood by the Out-Of-Town-News stand that, in Al's exact words, `I love Asian women, don't you? They're...they're so submissive...
...Ruckdeschel handed his family's savings, roughly $150,000, to Joseph Ventura, a sales rep from First Investors Corp., one of the country's largest managers of junk-bond mutual funds. Four years later, Ruckdeschel estimates his total losses at $75,000 but doesn't know the exact figure because at each sales call, Ventura would toss out the old records. "He never said anything about any risk -- just that if we needed retirement income, this was the way to do it," says Ruckdeschel. "Now I know why people jump out of windows...
...Eberhard Mueller draws a somewhat finer distinction. "Wild salmon is much better for a marinade, as in gravlax. It also stays firmer and has great intensity of flavor." He adds, "Farm-raised salmon is a very good product and is easy to work with. I can give you an exact recipe, and it will turn out a certain way. Wild salmon takes a little more experience to cook right." Even Charlie ! Trotter of Trotter's Restaurant in Chicago, spokesman for the Norwegian Salmon Marketing Council, has a good word for the wild. "It has a dramatic flavor," he acknowledges...