Word: detailism
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Reid, more conservative than Daschle and many other Democrats, is antiabortion and has voted against an assault-weapons ban. But with a Westerner's quiet style and meticulous attention to detail, he has built alliances across the political spectrum during his 17 years in the Senate. "The biggest strength he has is that he always keeps his word," says liberal Vermont Democratic Senator Patrick Leahy. Reid keeps note cards in his coat pocket to jot down favors requested by colleagues who buttonhole him--and to record when they're done. A skilled legislative tactician who practically camps...
...like to have someone like Knafel Professor of Music Thomas F. Kelley, who is so accustomed to teaching about and intimately familiar with the authentic L’Orfeo opera, play a main role in the staging of this production? Was there a great deal of attention paid to detail...
...football’s “greatest rivalry” and the progression of the 2002 Harvard and Yale teams as they work their way towards The Game. Corbett, the play-by-play announcer for Harvard football for the past seven years, not only manages to document in detail the evolution of football at the two universities, but also the creation of a national pastime...
...Carr posited the age-old question: “Why is it always the rich, spoiled college pukes who get nabbed for rioting?” Carr goes on to gleefully detail his take-no-prisoners telephonic harassment of the mother of one of the aforesaid pukes. This week, he called the Massachusetts Turnpike chairman “fat” while labeling a former state official a “midget.” In articles vilifying Democrats, Carr takes quotes out of contexts and appeals to his readers’ worst instincts like a schoolyard bully...
Hollywoodization of the News. The Herald is ostensibly in the business of news reporting, but purveying information regularly takes a back seat to keeping readers entertained at any cost. Important stories can be glossed over with minimal detail while much attention is paid to John Kerry’s supposedly fake tan. This lopsided rendering of world events contributes to the information gap on critical issues that plagues our country...