Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...program is heavy on philosophy, light on detail and shows signs of hasty assembly. The opening sentence reads: "No one should mistake the energy problem for what it is-a fundamental crisis that threatens Americans and America's way of life." (The drafters meant "fail to recognize...
...relation ship of features falls apart? And which features are the first to go? Close's meth od is to grid off a rectangle into squares - up to 600 of them - and to use each square as a part of the portrait. The coarser the grid, the more detail is lost...
...Dragons of Eden begins with a summary of how and when intelligence developed in various terrestrial species. In detail, Sagan describes the process of natural selection working toward the emergence of the creature Shakespeare called "the paragon of animals." Sagan also explains differences in the structure of the paragon's brain and those of other animals. He offers some idiosyncratic thoughts on why man's neurological legacy makes him behave the way he does...
TREADING THE AGE OF UNCERTAINTY is a little bit like taking a stroll through your old home town with your grandfather: you don't expect to see or hear anything startling, but his attendance to 'long-ignored detail with the personal, insider's touch almost makes the thing worthwhile. Grandpa Galbraith has been around for a long time; The Age of Uncertainty breaks no new ground in his own intellectual development. And you probably know much of the stuff he talks about already: Smith on the division of labor, Keynes on the role of government economic intervention, Khruschev on peaceful...
...Murphy protested that GM could do so only by making nearly all its cars as small as the boxy-looking subcompact Chevette. But that may not happen after all. In a "hypothetical scenario" submitted to the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration in Washington.* GM engineers spell out in some detail how they intend to meet the mileage standards while still producing about as wide a range of models as GM makes now. The principal methods: making engines less powerful and using a variety of technological tricks to reduce car weight. Presumably, the other automakers will pursue similar goals...