Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Under Champion's management, the University altered some of its budgeting and accounting methods. O'Brien said his chief priority will be to ensure that the system better serves the deans and financial officers at the various schools, "providing them with the level of information and detail they need...
...this week's cover story well before Le Carré-David Cornwell, that is-began to write his tale of British intelligence and Far Eastern intrigue. Wong and Cornwell met in the summer of 1975 in Hong Kong. As Wong recounts, Cornwell "picked my brain" for background detail. Last October, when Cornwell returned to the city, Wong and the author "huddled in his hotel suite for two days, going over a first draft, one paragraph after another. He had charts of sea tides, timetables for events in chronological order, maps and pictures of places in old and contemporary China...
...some 40-odd purported Hughes wills have surfaced, but none have borne the earmarks of Hughes' painstaking attention to detail. The most famous one is the "Mormon will," so called because it was found on an official's desk in the headquarters of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Salt Lake City. The will contains misspellings and references totally atypical of Hughes. It also leaves one-sixteenth of Hughes' money to a former Utah gas-station operator, Melvin Dummar, who claimed to have picked up Hughes in the desert and driven him back...
...topic to be discussed in detail at this afternoon's meeting is the proposal to assign permanent House affiliations to students before the start of their freshman years. The discussion will include a report on the pros and cons of pre-assignment, and a briefing on a investigatory trip several CHUL members took to Yale last year to study the workings of the pre-assignment there. CHUL opinions on the viability of pre-assignment range from "some people think it's inevitable" (Paul W. Mulkerrin '78, Winthrop House CHUL representative) to Savage's view that "everyone knows that...
Starting with Nobel and such other "merchants of death" as Alfred Krupp, Andrew Carnegie and the duPont family,Arms Bazaar by Anthony Sampson, a British journalist, traces the rise of the international arms market. As any good front-page journalist does, Sampson pays sharp attention to detail and leaves the analysis to more sophisticated writers. He merely tries to trace the industry point-by-point, producing an account valuable for researchers and pleasure readers...