Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Allen was given high marks for smoothly handling the swirl of diverse viewpoints and personalities. Since the Inauguration, complaints have risen again. Some White House colleagues feel he has not assembled his NSC staff swiftly or skillfully enough. Like his patron Meese, he seems to lack an eye for detail. Allen's ego may be smaller than Haig's, but not by much. Ambitious and restless, he may eventually claim more of the deck than he does at present, but he will probably move too adroitly to inspire mutiny...
Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Geoffrey Howe had barely finished addressing the packed House of Commons when an avalanche of outrage and derision descended. "A catastrophe of the first order for the British people," sputtered Opposition Leader Michael Foot. "Fundamentally wrong in concept and maladroit in detail," complained a fellow Conservative M.P., Peter Tapsell. Said London's staid Financial Times: "An admission of defeat by the government." Blared the tabloid Sun: "Howe it hurts...
Epidemiologist Brian MacMahon and his team stumbled upon the association while studying the effects of smoking and alcohol in 369 patients with pancreatic cancer who had been admitted to eleven New England hospitals between 1974 and 1979. The patients were questioned in detail about their use of tobacco and alcohol and incidentally about their drinking of tea and coffee. Their answers were then compared with those obtained from a control group of 644 patients hospitalized for different forms of cancer and for some nonmalignant diseases as well...
What mesmerizes one, at first, is the technique. Most of the sheets are very small, and the detail in some of them is carried out at an almost microscopic level-a difficult enough feat with "hard" tools like pen or silverpoint, but an impossible one (or so one would suppose) with red crayon. One of the minor technical mysteries surrounding Leonardo's work was how he made his chalk hard enough to hold a needle point when sharpened. The steadiness of his hand was almost inhuman-helped, no doubt, by the diet of fruit and water he was always...
...eating pounds of fake camembert. I have told the D.E. that my grandfather is dying. I am going home two months early. I do not remember having seen the Jeu de Paummes Museum or the palais Royale or Les Invalides or Montmartre. Later. I will talk about them in detail and sound impressive...