Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ordered chairs for Tercentenary Theater, selected the caterers, and headed planning for the 350th floating birthday party is worried about one last detail: rain. Memories of a soggy morning 50 years ago have haunted Stephenson the last five years as chief organizer of this week's anniversary celebration...
...candor goes well beyond the public media. Earlier this year Boris Yeltsin, the Gorbachev-appointed party boss for Moscow, surprised a meeting of propagandists with a blistering denunciation of the past administration of the city. Yeltsin described Moscow's well-known but seldom mentioned urban woes in painful detail. A million Muscovites still live in communal apartments where they share cooking and toilet facilities with other families, Yeltsin pointed out, while in the past decade the city has slipped from second place in the Soviet Union to 58th in new-housing construction. Drunkenness, he continued, has not diminished...
Lauren's prime selling point is his image of patrician quality, which he polishes like the good silver. Even though most of his wares are manufactured by independent licensees, Lauren wants to maintain a distinct reputation for close attention to detail. He does so by lavishing time and care on his image- making advertisements, which spread the message of his design principles. As part of that studied approach, Lauren prefers lavish magazine spreads to television commercials, which he views as too fleeting to impart his message. "Ralph has some of the best advertising in the business because it sets...
...above absolute zero (-233 degreesC), extremely cold by our standards but warm enough by interstellar | standards that it led us to think this would be an interesting object to look at." Best of all, the object, designated IRAS 16293-2422, was relatively close, making it easier to see finer detail...
Throughout the war, missile and torpedo firings are described in harrowing (and sometimes reassuring) detail, and conversations among radar technicians are loaded with the requisite Pentagon jargon. Clancy convincingly shows the importance of electronic intelligence--gathered by satellites, ships, planes and submarines--to modern warfare. Yet it is an old-fashioned human component that proves to be a critical factor. One of the multitude of subplots involves four Americans wandering the barren terrain of occupied Iceland, reporting Soviet movements on a primitive two-way radio. At first, allied analysts are skeptical about the information, but it turns...