Word: detailism
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...Sudan-linked companies that remain in its portfolio. “My view is that the kinds of involvements that were present in the case of PetroChina provided sufficient warrant for divestiture, and I just haven’t looked into the precise situation of other companies in sufficient detail to know whether they’re present or not,” Summers said yesterday. “But I hope that will be done in very short order.”The former Treasury secretary expressed concern with the decreasing level of attention given to Sudan...
...Seriously, I have never read a sex scene from a book like that!” Guillian H. Helm ’09 says. “In terms of detail, she blows me away...
...haunt him, and that’s a shame because he’s a good guy to have in there.”Cyr, who has been close to Reeves since they were both elected for the first time in 1989, also says that Reeves can neglect detail at times.“He likes to live well and is sloppy with bookkeeping,” Cyr said. “Ken would have assumed that someone would have done that for him...he’s kind of out of touch. But I don’t think...
...business—they aren’t afraid to laugh with actors, especially those they know, and their discussion when the actors were out of the room was the light banter of close friends, covering everything from theater to Thanksgiving. Still, they missed no detail. Executive Producer Zoe M. Savitsky ’07 gives each actor, even friends of the production team, a carefully rehearsed speech after every audition that details the information they need for callbacks and encourages them to visit the play’s website and join its e-mail list—another uniquely...
...impression of their “presence,” “vocal ability,” “dancing,” and “overall impact,” each on a scale from 1 to 10. At first, his notes are copious and detailed, and there are long discussions about each actor. Choreographers and music directors are consulted, and a consensus is always reached. Time still seems unlimited to them. But difficulties particular to Harvard’s Common Casting system start to clutter the way. The system is particularly tricky for Hanley because...