Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began earlier than some others, never heard about until late in the 1930's. We knew of local retired officials but there's a whole school of thought about this gentry class that as grown up in the last 15, 20 years and is now being studied in detail. It's one of the great Chinese inventions, the fruit of the examination system, tied in with landlordism, tied in with the values of literacy--all of it forming the local elite who are the key to local government and order. So the local magistrate in the Chinese kingdom...
...akin to the "Diabelli" Variations, featuring as its last movement a masterful and exquisite set of variations. But Shure's Opus 109 was much more digested than his Dudley "Diabelli." In this work he exhibited the acute but sensitively analytical mind for which he is noted among musicians. Every detail of the composition's intricate structure had been thought out with the utmost care. Shure employed a range of dynamics and special colorings that would be the envy of any pianist. While at times they produced a rather exaggerated effect, their use had obviously been meticulously planned way ahead...
...capitalism should have help against the muckrakers, who were attacking the callous business practices prevailing around the turn of the century. He taught the railroads not to try to suppress news of accidents, as they had always done, but to win over the press by supplying full and frank detail. By ghostwriting speeches and commissioning biographies, by suggesting foundations and philanthropies, he converted the Rockefellers from the most loathed family in America to one of the most admired...
...accurate fix on how individual industries and companies come off under the new rules. Negotiator Roth's Washington office has set up a special phone number (202-395-3044) for specifics on the new U.S. duties, which cover imports worth $8 billion a year. But details on the revised tariffs of each of the 49 Kennedy Round nations, which affect $40 billion in annual trade, may be some time in getting around: covering thousands of farm and factory items in painstaking detail, the entire list runs to 4,000 pages...
...more MIGs or money on the Arabs. Just before the war started, high-level Soviet officers visited Egyptian positions and were horrified to find that tanks were placed too far forward, artillery was improperly positioned, and warplanes were lined up like sitting ducks. The Soviets reported all this in detail to the Egyptians, who chose to ignore the warning...