Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...vision. The authors have taken extraordinary care in analyzing whether particular weapons or strategic policies are stabilizing or destabilizing under certain circumstances. Humanity, they observe, "must live with [nuclear weapons] carefully, vigilantly, gingerly, always displaying the utmost caution." Living With Nuclear Weapons bespeaks much the same prudent attention to detail that its authors would like to see among American policy makers...
...matter of responsibility but also of pride. Nobody likes to be the victim of a hoax." To allay any lingering doubts, Stern announced last week that it would eventually turn the diaries over to the West German national archives, where historians will be free to examine them in detail. -By Marguerite Johnson. Reported by Bonnie Angelo/London and B. William Mader/ Hamburg
...sole discoverer and documentor of all the obscure and fascinating trivia that made up the syndicated comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not; of heart and kidney diseases; in New York City. Hired by Strip Creator and Illustrator Robert Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters to sources and never found an unsubstantiated item...
...addition the course covers in detail the agricultural and pathological aspects of the cocoa species, the complicated processing of the beans for marketing and the international chocolate market...
...most striking part of this book--and, of course, what will make it sell--is Richards' openness. Though the book reads like a long string of one-sentence declarations, these certainly pack a punch. Richards shows considerable guts in spelling everything out; she discusses her relationships in painstaking detail, emphasizing that through it all both Dick and Renee have always been heterosexual. Raskind, it seems, spent a lot of time reworking his own body within limits. For instance, he used to tie his penis behind his rear end to hide it. Before his emasculation he would sleep with...