Word: detailism
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...lite, magnanimous in tone, full of specific policy prescriptions and as Republican as they can get away with. Opening night will feature only ordinary citizens, including a redemptive speech by Christopher Reeve, and even some Republicans touched by issues like gun control and welfare. Later Hillary Rodham Clinton will detail ways to help children, and Tipper Gore will address cultural and social values. The President's speech will be modeled on a State of the Union address, with at least 30 new proposals. The goal, said an adviser, "is to show how we already are and will continue to implement...
...with computers that factor in radar records, wind direction and speed, and other data. The studies will help experts determine the sequence of catastrophic events that led to the plane's destruction. Also, the sharp sound at the end of the cockpit voice recording is being analyzed in minuscule detail, with attention to the different speeds at which the vibrations travel through air and metal. If the gap between the sound's arriving by air and by metal is small, that means the event was close to the cockpit because the vibrations did not have time to gain a large...
...Lockerbie, Scotland on Dec. 21, 1988. Thurman matched a fragment of a circuit board from the bomb's timer to an identical circuit board, which was part of a timer the CIA had recovered from an intact, unexploded bomb seized in Togo in 1986. Thurman's amazing command of detail led to a Zurich electronics firm that admitted selling 20 such timers to the Libyan regime. The U.S. was then able to charge that Libyan intelligence agents had tagged a brown "bomb bag" containing the radio with stolen Air Malta tags and placed it on an Air Malta Flight...
...Mother Hen of the scamming and sloshing summer interns, I have gotten to spend the last few weeks examining Intern Culture in great detail. In between making sure that everyone makes it in the door regardless of age and no one makes it out the door without paying for all of their dollar bottles of Rolling Rock, I've been able to glean a few important facts...
...lover, Camilla Parker Bowles. Charles' approved biography, Prince of Wales, written by Jonathan Dimbleby, may make even more painful reading for Wills. In an apparent effort to puncture the Princess's popularity, Dimbleby is at pains to portray her as shallow, willful and dangerously unstable. He goes into detail about her depressions and bouts with bulimia, first revealed by Morton, and gives an unintentionally hilarious account of a trip to Italy in which the aesthete Charles tried to imbibe the culture while the vacuous Diana waited around to receive the adulation of the crowds. For a son it must...