Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...this year, the office is asking much more of its alumni allies. Instead of expecting an objective sketch which will be used to complement a candidate's folder, the office now wants a finished portrait, clearly drawn with the kind of detail that leaves almost no room for error. A revised interview form sent out this year and last asks them to write three short essays outlining a student's potential academic, extracurricular, and personal contributions to Harvard. Even a professional artist cannot be expected to finish a portrait after only an hour sitting. If he wants...
...absence of independent reporting from the scene of the battle, and with little detail coming from the Pentagon, reporters did what they could; the television networks used file footage, lively electronic graphics and innumerable maps of Grenada. ABC stood its Pentagon correspondent, Jack Smith, in front of a table model of the island with a pointer to explain what the Pentagon said was happening. On Wednesday, CBS Correspondent Sandy Gilmour chartered a plane in Barbados to capture the first television pictures not supplied by the Government. He taped the naval activity around Grenada from a distance until...
...stories is enormously concentrated: as Tyler writes in her introduction, "I like to imagine that if you set this book on a table, it would almost bounce, it would almost shout." Yet save for a pair of remarkably bizarre, tongue-in-cheek stories by Ursula K. LeGuin, these pages detail familiar happenings--walking the dog, vacations, and family reunions are intercut with the starker tragedies of imprisonment, alcoholism, death at birth, and death at long last...
...stricter accounting procedures, including "effort reporting" that requires researchers to detail how they spend their time, should prevent any questioning of researchers, integrity. While this will put added burdens of time and cost on all university research, federal officials point out the cost of such record-keeping is included in all government grants...
...interviews yesterday, masters from several Houses said they pleased with the increased detail provided by the computer system. But most added that the basic information in the new reports differs little from crime blotters that Harvard police have been circulating for years...