Word: detailism
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...rise, the U.S. military doesn't view it that way. "The number of IEDs have gone up," Harvey, the Army secretary, said last week, "but the effectiveness of those explosions has been cut by 66 percent. And I'm not going to get into any more detail than that...
...shame that the poor production values of the book underserve O's fine artwork. He draws in a delicate style of highly realistic pen work, filled with careful detail taking particular delight in the variety of people's comical facial characteristics such as broken noses, buck teeth and wide foreheads. Although the printing is clear and the lines are sharp, there are no margins around the artwork, so the panels often bleed into the gutter of the spine. Sometimes you have to press the book with the palm of your hand to read the words. Dialogue has also been carelessly...
...will be discussed with him in more detail to see in what capacity he would like to work with the U.N.,” she said...
...Reed Prize for undergraduate writing in 1951. The Crimson proudly ran it every reading period until 1962, when it irked one maligned and anonymous grader enough to reply. The Harvard examination system is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things: knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men 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.This article is designed to explain how to achieve the third answer...
...When you have three or four weapons, you try to take three of those weapons away,” Dartmouth coach Terry Dunn said. “Eventually, if you don’t pay attention to detail, one of those guys out of the four will hurt...