Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Students approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent, and the second takes too long...
Reagan will deliver a speech on the Iran-Contra affair next week, on a day still unspecified, but spokesman Marlin Fitzwater said the president does not intend to "go into every detail" about the testimony which was spread over three months of hearings...
...Administration thought it had found a prime example of loose tongues in Congress: it denounced the disclosure by Democrat Les Aspin, chairman of the House Armed Services Committee, that the first Kuwaiti tankers to fly the U.S. flag would take to sea this Wednesday. Aspin replied sharply that this detail had not been classified and that Senate Republican Leader Robert Dole had also mentioned it. Moreover, both Aspin and Dole had been briefed by Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger and Admiral William Crowe, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs, who made no claim that the date of the first sailing was classified...
...built in Costa Rica by North's contra resupply network. The admiral said that while the President knew the rebels were being supported by private donations and contributions from third countries, he never asked where precisely the money was coming from. "The President . . . is not a man for great detail," said Poindexter, inadvertently provoking chuckles from the audience...
Though Poindexter had the gumption to authorize the diversion, he seemed not to want to know too much about the deals: he testified that he never asked North how much money was being diverted to the contras; the admiral, known for his attention to detail, said he was not concerned with such bits of "micro- management...