Word: detailer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Turn on the TV to watch the evening news. Every step of the courtroom drama covered in full detail. Did O.J. do it? How will his lawyers evade the latest evidence trap? Watch the news and find...
...doubt Clinton's raw intelligence, but intellect lags behind fortitude when considering the qualities that make Presidents successful. Ronald Reagan, at sea when it came to programmatic detail, was successful nonetheless because many Americans admired the strength of his convictions and his resolve in pursuing them. "We'll make some hay about Republican meanness,'' says a White House aide, "but our overarching obstacle is that many see the President as weak, as someone who doesn't stand for anything...
...Medicaid, which are now projected to cost $1.82 trillion by the decade's end. Also included: a scheme to shrink cost-of-living increases to Social Security recipients. The report, in a barb at opponents who demanded to know where the GOP cuts would fall, challenged Democrats "to detail their alternatives, or to explain what taxes they would raise, where they would cut Social Security or why their believe the federal budget should not be balanced...
...pleased to report that over the pastthree years we have built a group of facultydeeply engaged in curricular issues and ablewisely to address these matters bothphilosophically and in detail," Knowles said...
...show creates. For her the show is interesting because of the "E.R. culture" that's arising. "There is definitely a bonding that goes on about the show. On Friday everyone is talking about it, and even though we all saw it, we still have to go over every tiny detail." She believes that the show's popularity stems from its pseudo-intellectualism, which makes people feel smart when they watch it. Unlike those who watch the "totally frivolous" 90210, E.R.-viewers come away from the TV guilt-free, almost as if they'd spent the hour doing problem sets...