Word: detailism
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Many provisions, including the way students will be redistributed from the houses into the schools, are left vague in the proposal adopted last night. The recommendation calls for D'Alessandro to detail this procedure by mid-April...
...whether the police told Diallo to stop." If they didn't warn him, or identify themselves, White says, they have little in the way of defense. Attorneys for the policemen contend, without irony, that each of the plainclothes officers was wearing his police medallion around his neck - a detail the police evidently expected Diallo to process correctly at the same instant that they were mistaking Diallo's wallet for a weapon...
...There would be more restrictions on development and a finer level of control over detail in the Square," says Charles M. Sullivan, executive director of the Cambridge Historical Commission...
...paid good money for that ad and wanted anyone looking at Times Square--whether with their own eyes or through the TV cameras--to see it. CBS argued that it hadn't acted to deceive. The coverage wasn't really news, and the NBC logo was an unimportant detail. What obligation did CBS have to advertise for its competitors? CBS Television Chair Les Moonves announced that unless it were vital to a news story, "any time there is an NBC logo on our network, we will block...
Twelve-year-old twin terrorists toking on stogies as they order up a hospital siege? That may sound a little far-fetched even in the fevered imagination of the action-movie genre, but it was probably the most compelling detail of the hostage drama that ended in a bloodbath in Thailand Monday. In a surprise attack the Thai army freed 500 hostages and killed 10 members of the self-styled "God's Army," but the more shocking image for Western audiences may have been the photographs of the organization's leaders, Luther and Johnny Htoo. The boys are fundamentalist Christians...