Word: detailism
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...scientists, CEOs, Nobel prizewinners and university presidents--including Texas A&M president Robert Gates, director of the CIA under President George H.W. Bush and a close friend of the Bush family. Titled "Rising Above the Gathering Storm: Energizing and Employing America for a Brighter Economic Future," it outlined in detail just how bad the situation was in nearly every area of research and called for new government funding. At about the same time, the National Association of Manufacturers and the Chamber of Commerce were issuing reports with similar conclusions...
...concede that Ford is a more than usually spry 63-year-old--he's a movie star, for heaven's sake; it's his business not to act his age--but we have to wonder why, when the picture is set in Seattle, where it rains often, this detail-oriented guy never seems to remember his raincoat or umbrella. Then there's the matter of the family. What has rendered them so friendless? Only once does someone call to inquire why they haven't been around. The mailman doesn't appear. No one drops by to ask the kids...
We’ve all been there before—gleefully typing away in the comments section of the CUE guide, relating in excruciating detail how painful the professor’s lectures were, how incoherent the problem sets, and how ludicrously cruel the grading policy. Sweet, sweet catharsis. But it seems that professors relish their schadenfreude...
...panel of Pan judges. But their description of her suggested treatment as "charmingly skewed" hints that they found an even better reason in the dark twists of McCaughrean's own imaginative fiction. Her 2004 novel, Not the End of the World, for example, describes in grim and blanchmaking detail life aboard the Ark with the zealous Noah, while all around the world drowns. And in last year's White Darkness, the best friend of Sym, a 14-year-old girl who's chronically shy and hard of hearing, is the famous (and long-dead) Antarctic explorer Lawrence Oates. When...
Jarecki’s film endeavors to detail the manifold ways in which America has failed to heed President Eisenhower’s warning...