Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...doctor's unflinching account, published anonymously in the Jan. 8 Journal of the American Medical Association, was the first such confession ever to appear in a U.S. medical journal. With stark candor and dramatic detail, it spotlighted one of U.S. medicine's most controversial issues: the extent to which American doctors commit mercy killings. The report has prompted a storm of protest and a flurry of letters to J.A.M.A., most of which were from physicians who condemned the resident's behavior as both illegal and unethical. New York City Mayor Edward Koch was so horrified by the J.A.M.A. account that...
...time Americans pick a new President on Nov. 8 they will have invested nearly half a billion dollars in a random and chaotic process. They will have absorbed encyclopedic detail on such pop issues as the "wimp factor," and probably given more of the public's airwaves to this political marathon than to any other story of our age. Then a lot of them will lose interest until the Inauguration...
HAIG. Despite his syntax-slaughtering demeanor, he knows his stuff. At one debate, all turned to him to clear up confusion about an INF detail...
Stankard, 44, is an artist in glass. His nimble fingers can fashion fragile slivers into wild flowers with a captivating attention to detail; leaves have been munched by insects; petals show the wilt of age; and beneath the plant a tangle of roots seeks nourishment from the earth. True, they are not exact replicas of woodland plants, but neither are they prettified curios. Each spiderwort, evening primrose or wood lily is a stylized representation of growth and decay. The complexity of the design, Stankard says, must not be obvious. "It must reveal itself...
...Alden, Iowa, a Secret Service agent halted all traffic at the main intersection. Knowing Iowans' impatience with such inconveniences, Bush Aide Rich Bond furiously urged the agent to allow the traffic to flow freely. The agent refused. At last report, he was being transferred off the V.P.'s security detail...