Word: detail
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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However, despite the hamstringing of the bill prior to passage, commission members insist the financial disclosure requirements are stringent enough to be effective. Officials are still required to list their business dealings in great detail. The form also probes deeply into the question of gifts, while not snooping too far into an offical's private family records...
...federal bureaucracy now employs 2.8 million people and spends about $461 billion a year, too much of it wasted. President Carter pushed through a bill that would reduce the machine and streamline it, but veteran bureaucrats expect little change. Their methods of resistance were described in unusual detail in the New Republic earlier this month by a Department of Agriculture insider who called himself James North. He also changed the names of his fellow employees. Excerpts...
Georgia Buck, a black secretary in the office, at least had a reason not to produce: revenge. Several years earlier she had been involved in an affirmative-action suit, and since then she had been shuffled-"detailed," in bureaucratese -among offices in the department. When I knew her she was on her fifth detail, felt very persecuted, and on the rare occasions when she was given anything to do, worked far below her abilities...
Midnight Express, At Harvard Square. Monday at 12 noon, 3:55 and 7:55 p.m. With The Last Detail...
...group of his small, fragmentary bronze torsos, minutely finished, imbued with something of the erotic dandyism of the Belle Epoque. But the prize for obsessiveness, were it to be given, surely belongs to Gregory Gillespie, 44, whose Self-Portrait in Studio, 1976-77, is rendered with maniacal detail−everything in place, every pore on the knobby hands and taut face a deliberate homage to the Flemish quattrocento, and the palette with its squidgy mounds of pigment (paint depicting paint as well as painter) turned into one of the most ar resting displays of realist bravura in recent American...