Word: detailism
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...hand, he got away with this for 15 years. On the other hand, the FBI was able to amass an incredible amount of detail about it. When they arrested him and searched his car, they found two journals that described in detail what he was doing. You just don't leave incriminating evidence lying around your car. It's sloppy...
...Acting Prime Minister Ehud Barak immediately closed Palestinian areas and his defense minister vowed that Israel would continue to pursue those responsible for planning such attacks - an ominous warning in light of Tuesday's assassination of a lieutenant colonel in Yasser Arafat's security detail in an Israeli helicopter attack. Even more ominous, perhaps, was the sense that Israel and the Palestinians may be entering a new downward spiral of violent conflict...
...tedious. Project 2061, the education-improvement initiative of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, examined 10 of the most widely used high school biology texts last year and could not recommend a single one as satisfactory. "Although the textbooks are filled with pages of vocabulary and unnecessary detail, they provide only fragmentary treatment of some fundamentally important concepts" such as natural selection and cell construction, said Dr. George Nelson, the former astronaut who heads Project...
Analyzing my situation in more detail, without the aid of rodentia, I realized I don't even enjoy gambling. All those NCAA and Academy Award office pools generate far too much e-mail and sometimes require conversations with people in the marketing department. Yet I endure it because, like most men, I think I can boost my self-esteem by trying to prove that I am always right. Women's self-esteem seems to come from healthier places, like starving themselves...
...author rejects the notion that the book is partially autobiographical, a suggestion fostered by his painstaking research and meticulous detail. But he does admit to an idyllic childhood in the south on his father's tea estate which gave him a love of his native soil. Even though the scope of Davidar's saga compares to Seth's novel, its capable prose lacks the magical turns of phrase found in A Suitable Boy. Davidar's is a deliberate, enduring tale and one that proves years of plowing through a slush pile?learning how not to write?can produce a master...