Word: precisionism
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It was Ramsey's increased precision that enabled scientists to use the atomic clock for the official measurement of world time. In 1967, his method was used to redefine the second as the length of time it takes a cesium nucleus to rotate 9,192,631,770 times.
The Cardinal penalty kicker has guessed right a lot lately--he's nailed all three penalty kicks this year and hit a perfect four last season. This time, his precision resulted in the game-winner.
The operation went off with military precision. At about 6 p.m. Wednesday, officers from the Dijin, a police special-operations team, hustled Eduardo Martinez Romero out the back door of a maximum-security Bogota jail while other officers distracted reporters and photographers gathered in front. Martinez, wanted in Atlanta in...
Evert thinks it a great joke that she was not voted "Most Athletic" of her high school graduating class. In truth, her game relied more on mental agility than physical force. She paced the base line and outwaited opponents, rather than take high-risk shots or rush the net seeking...
The team members, twelve of whom are laboring in Jerusalem, point out that their task is difficult and must be done with precision. For example, one of the caves contained 15,000 fragments that had to be pieced together like jigsaw puzzles into 516 scrolls. Harvard University's John Strugnell...