Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...white-coated physician leaned over his patient, holding a stethoscope to his chest, nothing seemed out of the ordinary. But one detail did distinguish the examination from those conducted routinely in Israeli hospitals: the paper pinned to the patient's left sleeve identified him as "Dr. Niksa. Hunger Striker. Orthopedics Department." Throughout Israel last week doctors were collapsing in emergency rooms or working with intravenous tubes hanging from their arms. Of the country's 28 hospitals most were handling nothing but emergency cases, and only four were functioning normally. The reason: 2,700 doctors, convinced that they...
Lampert's book is excellently reported and loaded with lively reconstructed dialogue, although sometimes the drumfire of detail hangs out like clothespins on a line. Lampert discloses that Donald Trump, the New York City real estate tycoon, considered tendering an offer for about 7% of Bendix during the takeover battle in exchange for RCA stock owned by Bendix. The author describes how Agee and Cunningham did not feel they had to play by the same rules as everyone else. At one point, Bruce Wasserstein, a First Boston investment banker who was advising Bendix, tells a flustered Agee: "Before...
...proverb has it, the more things change, the more they are the same. Even up here, my health is precarious: as I used to write you in clinical detail during my years of childhood, adolescence and maturity, I suffer from hay fever, chills, diseases of the urinary tract and bowels, insomnia and aches of the joints. Perhaps disease is what guards my moral sense. As I wrote in Remembrance of Things Past, "Illness is the most heeded of doctors: to goodness and wisdom we only make promises; we obey pain...
...directed him down with a certain audible deference. Glenn put the plane on automatic pilot and began talking about his early flying days. He was asked how clearly he remembered the dogfights over Korea, when he shot down three MiGs the last week of the war. He remembered every detail, he said. Two of the enemy pilots had been very good, but the third was slow. Glenn moved his right hand, fingers straight, slowly upward toward the palm of his left to show how he had zoomed up from underneath and fired into the belly of the third...
...particular point and is criticized for missing the broader picture. "He can see the pieces of the puzzle," says one Senator who serves with Glenn on the Foreign Relations Committee, "but he has trouble putting the puzzle together." The most extraordinary example of Glenn's fixation on detail occurred during the 1979 debate over the SALT II treaty. Jimmy Carter viewed the treaty as indispensable to further political initiatives with the Soviets and told Glenn so. Glenn focused on verification. He was convinced that the U.S. could not monitor the pact because of the loss of two tracking stations...