Word: detailing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...poignant portrait of this troubled, brilliant writer. As the author desired, we do come away with an impression of Boswell as a powerful and interesting personality in his own right, far away from the shadow of his brilliant mentor. We understand better the mind that absorbed and synthesized detail like no other and consistently entertained Samuel Johnson, the most demanding of conversationalists. And we take satisfaction in a book that should set the standard for biographies of Boswell, as Boswell's own work set the standard 200 years...
...truth, Reagan has no specific plan, secret or otherwise. He has yet to discuss his future moves in any detail, even with his advisers. They say he feels no real sense of urgency; Reagan believes Reaganism has worked well and needs few refinements. But there are certain to be major new initiatives, most likely involving arms control and tax reform...
...suggested to Mrs. Gandhi in July that Sikhs be removed from her security staff, she had refused. "How can we claim to be secular?" she had asked in a hastily scrawled note. Not far from Beant Singh stood Satwant Singh, 21, who had been assigned to Mrs. Gandhi's detail five months before...
...Nehru finished a speech, then suffered a stroke and collapsed in Indira's arms. For more than four months, she not only nursed him but aided him in running the country from his sickbed. When Nehru died of another stroke that May, a dry-eyed Indira supervised every detail of the tumultuous funeral and flew in the plane that scattered his ashes across the countryside...
...report, written by Vice President for Government, Community and Public Affairs John H.F. Shattuck, discuss in detail the latest federal research restrictions, which he believes severely limit academic freedom. The study emphasizes the impact of publication limitations and access of foreign scholars to research findings...