Word: detailism
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Associate Dean of HMS Public Affairs Don L. Gibbons declined to go into detail on the changes proposed by the committee, but said concerns about faculty retention have helped motivate the review...
...detail officer at the Kennedy School of Government stopped two suspicious individuals. After additional HUPD units arrived, the two were interviewed. HUPD arrested Jay Ringer, 25, of Somerville, for possession of a "Class D" narcotic...
...Memorial Hall detail officer of the HUPD arrested Francis Shi, 39, of Dorchester, for trespassing...
...exception to this eruption of specificity and detail has been John McCain. For him, the campaign has been a seat-of-the-pants operation, not only in its mechanics but also in its ideas. He has mostly forsaken large-scale policy speeches in favor of town-hall Q.s and A.s, where issues can be dealt with in catchphrases. His few attempts at concreteness tend to collapse in self-contradiction. He wants to use the budget surplus to shore up Social Security and preserve it for future generations; at the same time, he would undermine it by letting workers deposit part...
...connections between the European explorers and natives of the past, the fishermen and disillusioned urban dwellers of the present and the young daughter and dying father of the author's real life. In a book that you assume will focus on long, flowing descriptions of the beautiful landscape, the detail given to the lives of the people found in this environment is refreshing and original...