Word: detail
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard examinations system is designed, according to its promulgators to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Mem approaching the examination, problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first, choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Gromkyo's arrival statement was conciliatory and pledged a "responsible and constructive approach" toward the talks. He said, without going into detail, that he favoured "radical reductions of nuclear arms...
Many of the most serious industrial-safety problems involve the transportation of chemicals. In elaborate detail, the Department of Transportation has compiled regulations for the handling of 3,000 dangerous products. Says Thomas Charlton, chief of the standards division in the department's office of hazardous materials: "We regulate every container from laboratory jars to railroad tank cars...
...seven days during the past two weeks, TIME Correspondent David Halevy took the stand in a federal courtroom in Manhattan to recount in vivid detail what he saw and heard-and felt and believed-while he covered the ravaged precincts of Beirut and the troubled ruling circles of Israel before and after the 1982 massacre. Halevy's highly personal account was required because his credibility and state of mind are principal issues in a $50 million libel suit brought by former Israeli Defense Minister Ariel Sharon against TIME...
...unavailable elsewhere. Shut Out the Light, recorded for Born in the U.S.A. but weeded out in the final editing process, is simple, stark, folk-inflected and filled with a kind of cold-sweat compassion for its protagonist, a Viet Nam vet returning home. The lyrics are full of stabbing detail: this vet's wife "called up her mama to make sure the kids were out of the house/ She checked herself out in the dining room mirror/ And undid an extra button on her blouse." As in Ernest Hemingway's seminal short story Soldier's Home...