Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...polls are reading the public mood correctly. Says Democratic Senate Whip Alan Cranston of California: "The attitude among Democrats here is that we can't be in the position of preventing him from trying what he was elected to do. We can't go along on every detail, but if we obstructed everything, it would be bad for the country and bad for the Democrats. The voters would remove a lot more...
...Afro-Am; almost certainly, though, it is not truly committed to building it. Black organizations have done much to keep the University from destroying Afro-Am, but less to strengthen it. I would have expected the BSA to have drafted an in depth, comprehensive report outling in as specific detail as possible their recommendations on how to build an effective department. Perhaps such a report exists, but if so it hasn't been circulated widely enough for me to know of its existence. Students should watch the University's actions closely, but the emphasis should be on detailed, constructive suggestions...
George Bayliss's article on my insulting remarks towards Lesley college, which resulted in that institution's withdrawal of Summer Compass Program from the Cambridge Public School locus, failed to include some important background detail as to why the honor of that institution, and Dean Wiley, were impugned at the recent meeting of the Cambridge School Committee...
...creates the feeling of memory ultimately precludes any real clarity of vision. Although in a work such as this, a strong focus would surely ring false, the length of the book makes the lack of direction frustrating and forces the overall themes to be obscured at times by trivial detail...
...stick it to me hard." Admits Hersh: "I led the way in trashing him." When Korry protested to Hersh and other reporters that some witnesses had lied to the Senate committee about his role, only one newsman, Joe Trento of the Wilmington (Del.) News Journal, investigated the case in detail. In 1976 Trento wrote that Korry had been victimized by other Government officials looking for a scapegoat, but the story was largely ignored by the Times and other major news organizations...