Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard were found exceeding the threshold by using more than 10,000 pounds of a listed substance, the bill would require that the University increase the amount of detail in their reports on toxic chemical use and production. The University would also have to present proposals to the DEQE to effectively reduce these amounts of waste...
...noting "Stalin's incontestable contribution to the struggle for socialism," and seemed to diminish the extent of Stalin's crimes by numbering his victims in the thousands, rather than millions. Nonetheless, Gorbachev took an unprecedented step. Although Khrushchev had attacked Stalin's legacy with far more passion and detail 31 years earlier, his speech was never published in the Soviet Union; Gorbachev's was carried live on nationwide radio and television...
Kwitny's research is formidable--so formidable, in fact that details of specific incidents tend to detract from his central purpose. While The Crimes of Patriots succeeds as an account of a series of interesting events, the events are not well enough connected to form a broad indictment of the CIA. The sometimes deadening effect of detail is evident when Kwitny recounts the questioning of Geort...
...problem is hideously complicated in detail but simple enough in outline. Ever since the giant tax cuts of 1981, the U.S. has been running deficits on a scale never seen before. True, Reagan announced at his press conference that the deficit in fiscal 1987, which ended on Sept. 30, dropped to $148 billion, from $221 billion the prior fiscal year. But the new figure is still far too high, and it is likely to rise again soon; much of the 1987 reduction was due to one-shot effects of the tax-reform law. Concurrently, the U.S. has swung from...
...York, who specializes in 19th century history (Marriage and Morals Among the Victorians). Her sonorous scorn for the excesses and rigidities of the new history might win the approval of the ghost of Carlyle. She loathes the idea that social history should base itself on a substructure of material detail "that supposedly goes deeper than mere political arrangements and is not amenable to reason." Worse, anthropological history explores "such nonrational aspects of society as mating customs and eating habits"; psychoanalytic history dwells "upon the irrational . . . aspects of individual and collective behavior"; mentalite history gives "greater credence to popular beliefs than...