Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tanks and personnel carriers, jets and helicopters, artillery pieces chemical munitions and an arsenal of tactical nuclear weapons. A few typed commands to a VAX 11/780 minicomputer conjure up rivers, mountains and cities. Drawing on the resources of the Defense Mapping Agency, the machine can display in full topographical detail any 15-sq.-mi. slice of the earth, from the Straits of Hormuz to the Falkland Islands, although the game is most often played on West German real estate near the Iron Curtain...
...scolds and pontificates, but also explains the mysteries of that hallowed golden fleece: the diploma marked Veritas. The latter tends toward verbosity: 821 pages last year, and perhaps bulkier still when re-released September 8. Its strength lies in a vast scope combined subtly with a scrupulous dedication to detail...
...year later, the same script is being replayed in gruesome detail. An economy teetering on the brink of Depression has revealed the true fruits of "voodoo economics," yet this year, House Democrats were so eager to pass the Administration's tax bill word-for-word that they saw no reason to even debate it, let alone observe the lower chamber's Constitutional responsibility to initiate tax legislation! And so Americans will be hit with the largest tax increase in their history--this from the man who promised to "reduce the burden of the federal government"--largely in the form...
...cities. In the future, industrial might will flow increasingly from the power to make things small: the microscopic electrical circuits that form the core of computers, calculators, missile control panels, televisions, video games and all other electronic products. Called semiconductors, these circuits are most commonly etched in invisibly intricate detail on thin silicon chips as small as a baby's fingernail. Marvels in miniature, the chips can execute commands, perform complex calculations and store libraries of information. What iron and steel were to the Industrial Revolution, semiconductors are to the Electronic...
...wrote to Freidenberg: "It is my first real work. In it I want to convey the historical image of Russia over the past 45 years, and at the same time I want to express in every aspect of the story-a sad, dismal story, worked out in fine detail, ideally...