Word: detailism
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...legislation would extend existing cuts, not create a new one. The 12 Senate Democrats who supported the Bush tax cut could remind Daschle of this minor detail...
...typical female Harvard student, if there is one, is a fascinating character: usually an exceptional note-taker and a religious to-do list maker, she also arrives at her 10 a.m. lectures on time, attends office hours and leaves herself enough time to outline her essays, in detail, before she begins writing them—and to have an extra day to revise them before the ultimate deadline. Most guys, it seems, drawing upon some incredible reserve of confidence, find such efforts superfluous because their gut assures them it all will come together in the end, anyway. Insanely dedicated...
...face a life sentence if found guilty for the 1975 murder of Moxley, his young friend and neighbor in the exclusive Belle Haven neighborhood of Greenwich, Connecticut. Dr. Henry Lee, the forensic expert who became famous during the O.J. Simpson case, also testified on Wednesday. Describing the murder in detail, Lee told the court the attack probably started on the Moxley driveway - where spots of blood were found - but that Martha was finally killed on a nearby patch of grass...
...Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Koul leaves to raise a family in the U.S. just as Kashmir plunges into crisis. And she can only watch as it blows apart. But this is not meant to be a political treatise; it's a paean to the past. Koul succeeds through sensuous detail in summoning the vanished Kashmir, the one of rainbow days and clear mountains and Hindus living peacefully with Muslims. The one worth preserving in memory...
...quarter an hour” then sit down to break bread at Jerry’s, the local cheap food joint attached to the gas station. Their lives, remarkable for their modest strength in the face of lower middle-class adversity, are exposed in the sort of richly layered detail that is rare on stage...