Word: exactly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sound on the radio now. Some kind of homing signal. Coming in strong now, and now you know the sound. It's only rock 'n' roll, but no mistake: it's their rock 'n' roll. It was even once the title of a Stones song, a hit . . . forget the exact date. Not so long ago, after...
Aoun gets help from Iraq, eager to exact revenge for Syria's support of Iran in the gulf war. Baghdad has been shipping weapons to the Christians mainly to gall Syria. Long rivals for hegemony in the region, the two Arab giants seem to be fighting a proxy war on Lebanese soil. The struggle for control of Lebanon is further confused by the power contest in Tehran and the fate of the 15 foreign hostages...
...Brinkley's journalistic devotion to detail comes out in the military scenes, which comprise some of the weaker parts of the novel. The exact effects of SA-7's, Deadeyes, Redeyes, etc., etc., are unnecessary additions to an otherwise compelling plot...
...government blames every adversity on the eight-year war against the contras, which ground to a halt when the U.S. Congress cut off military aid in 1988. The conflict did exact a terrible price. Some 23,000 persons were killed and twice that many injured, many of them civilians. The bill for destruction of property hovers around $12 billion. Then in 1988 Hurricane Joan compounded the pain, causing more than $800 million in damage. On top of that, the U.S. trade embargo initiated in 1985 has paralyzed the economy...
...dramatic decisions were written by Justices Antonin Scalia and Sandra Day O'Connor, who were joined by Justices Byron White and Anthony Kennedy and Chief Justice William Rehnquist. The rulings, together with a decision holding that police need not use the "exact form" of the Miranda warnings to inform arrested suspects of their rights, left little doubt that the court's tough law-and-order majority is firmly entrenched. "The days of criminals' getting off on technicalities are over," declared Daniel Popeo, head of the conservative Washington Legal Foundation, surveying the overall rightward drift of the Rehnquist Court's criminal...