Word: detailism
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Associate Dean of the College Thomas A. Dingman ’67 says Lewis is a prolific note-taker and thorough memo-writer, always careful never to miss a detail of any given issue...
...impossible to predict whether Lewis’ successor will seek to emulate his meticulous attention to detail and craving for organization...
When Harvard made a highly public bid for a plot in Allston owned by the Turnpike Authority, Grogan says he worked with Zeckhauser from the get-go on every detail of the purchase...
...product of months of gathering frustration, Rowley's memo--a full copy of which was obtained by TIME--unspools in furious detail how, in the weeks leading up to the hijackings, officials at FBI headquarters systematically dismissed and undermined requests from Rowley's Minneapolis field office for permission to obtain a warrant to wiretap and search the computer and belongings of Zacarias Moussaoui, the French-Moroccan operative arrested in Minnesota last August and facing trial this fall as the sole person charged with conspiring in the attacks. Rowley asserts that the FBI didn't "do much" to share information about...
...Providence and Boston, plaintiffs' research has yielded some detail on the scope of church enterprises. But no matter how opulent their headquarters or how many seaside retreats their subsidiaries operate, the archdioceses and dioceses generally plead poverty--and tend to get away with it. Los Angeles attorney Katherine Freberg recalls trying in vain to get around California laws preventing access to church documents in a sex-abuse case last year. By releasing so little financial information, the Los Angeles archdiocese and Orange County diocese, reputed to be among the wealthiest in the country, were able to negotiate a relatively small...