Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rashke sheds much new light on the Silkwood case, providing a clear and convincing agrement for further investigation. It is unfortunate that the forces the reader to wade through pages of extraneous detail and occasional highly technical descriptions. It is a tragedy that he gave the book the name he did. A hundred pages shorter with a title less bold sensational, his book might be read by those who mattered. As it is, it will probably be read only by those who are already converts to the Silkwood name...
...into his armor-plated black Lincoln limousine at 1:45 p.m. for the seven-minute drive to the Hilton. With him was Michael Deaver, his closest personal aide, Labor Secretary Ray Donovan and two Secret Service agents: Drew Unrue was driving, and Jerry Parr, chief of the presidential protection detail, sat in the right front seat. Following them in the motorcade was Presidential Press Secretary Jim Brady. Half an hour earlier, his deputy, Larry Speakes, had asked, "You going with the President to the hotel?" Brady's casual reply: "Yeah, I think I will." With other agents following...
...grappled with the central issues of his day. Andrew Delbanco believes that Channing's inner life may best be understood through his public utterances, and examines the way his subject spoke as well as what he said. In his biography of Channing, the author acknowledges an abbreviation of outward detail. He prepares us quickly for our journey into William Ellery Channing's mind; we learn in six taut paragraphs that he graduated from Harvard with a gift for oratory and sailed for Virginia in November, 1798, where he grew less sociable and more insular in Richmond as he searched...
Tucked into a single week were 37 shows of fall clothes, attracting 2,400 buyers and fashion critics. Many agreed that in important respects-fabric, detail and practicality-the milanese look has come to rival la mode parisienne...
Finally, the FDA believes the proposal does not go into enough detail on what, if any, information will be gathered after the implant. Will the researchers, for example, record the effect on the blood, measure exercise tolerance of the patient, or monitor the new heart's pumping ability...