Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...officials rescheduled the launch for this Thursday after determining that the oil systems were in working order. This was scant consolation to the Detroit News. A front-page story headlined COLUMBIA DOES AN ENCORE appeared in some of last Wednesday's editions, describing the "perfect launch" in glowing detail. This week with a little luck and good Floridian weather, both the News and NASA might get it right...
...home she shares with her younger brother and her secretary-companion in Fenwick, Conn., on Long Island Sound. Vigorous as ever, she regularly bikes, swims, plays a fiercely competitive game of tennis. She talks easily about her life and her work. The Hepburn mind still functions dexterously. The odd detail may elude her, but her memory is radiant and rich with the large patterns of life, its experience and meaning, its jokes and ironies. And all of it falls into Yankee perspective...
...Last Detail (1973) d. Hal Ashby (best actor, Cannes; Oscar nominee...
...some of Schmidt's Cabinet members told him that they were concerned about the matter, and the Chancellor acknowledged that Reagan's statements had been "possibly ambiguous." But Schmidt then reaffirmed his belief that the President's interpretation of NATO strategy "did not call the slightest detail into question...
...each with one neutral, one American and one Iranian. Although they have been meeting periodically since last July, the tribunal's members have still not agreed on basic operating rules or even whether the cases need to be decided by unanimous vote or simple majority rule. Another key detail over which both Washington and Tehran continue to squabble concerns whether Iran or the fund should receive the interest on the $1 billion settlement account. With Iran in continuing turmoil, no one knows if the Tehran government will continue to support the arbitration process...