Word: detailing
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...great and good, this will not be easy. Europeans love thinking about America, part in longing, part in envy, part in disdain. You could spend a nice year trotting from Ditchley Park in Oxfordshire to Salzburg, from the Italian lakes to German castles, doing nothing but ponder in earnest detail the state of the Atlantic alliance. It's a monumental waste of time. Nearly six years after those passionate disagreements on the invasion of Iraq, U.S.-Europe relations are just fine, with a clutch of Atlanticists heading the governments of Britain, France and Germany - and leading the European Commission...
...many ports - generally frown upon if not ban crews from carrying weapons. So when bands of pirates approach a target ship at high speed with machine guns and RPGs blazing, there's little fighting back that the crew can do. Reports to the International Maritime Bureau on hijackings detail crews using water shot from fire hoses, evasive maneuvers that sometimes generate waves to keep the pirates at bay and "Mayday" calls to other ships as the key defenses against pirates...
...time when characters on the hit teen TV shows can be ostracized for wearing last season's designer shoes, we have no idea what Bella wears besides blue jeans and T shirts. We barely know what she looks like beyond her fair skin, though we know every detail of Edward's luminous looks. She is brave and loyal but not rich or cool, and yet she is the object of passionate devotion by the hottest boy in school - who, as it happens, must exercise constant self-restraint around...
...sense of an applicant's ability to successfully perform a government job. It's also unlikely that a few wrong answers would be reason enough for elimination, especially given that the President-elect himself would not have emerged from answering the questionnaire unscathed. (Question #20 asks the applicant to detail any past or present associations that might have "the potential for embarrassment." Bill Ayers, anyone?) For those brave enough to get through the questions, an adventurous career in government service awaits: the Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Government Affairs has published a guide called the Plum Book which lists...
...Bulgari's workshop for its most complicated timepieces, in Le Sentier, Switzerland. A "grand complication"?as the most complex watches, like Tourbillons, are called?requires more than 3,000 production steps and 300 quality-assurance checks. Each watch can take up to a week to be assembled. No detail is ignored: at the Le Sentier atelier, as at the Bulgari workshop in Neuchâtel, there is sticky paper on the floor, and windows stay shut to keep dust out of workrooms and out of watches. Here's a closer look at how a Diagono is constructed...