Word: detailism
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...editorial was, first and fore-most, factually inaccurate. It implied that the Council had sponsored or even funded the recent "Hello Day," this event, in the words of its organizer, "had nothing to do with the council." I do not appreciate such inattention to detail in an attack on the council's relevance and competence...
...mostly a Republican affliction? Seven prominent politicians, including five Democrats and two Independents, have been secretly plotting an independent run for the White House, some of the participants have told Time. In a prearranged conference call on two Sunday mornings since late October, the schemers have talked in detail about the need for a third voice to challenge the two-party system. Next Sunday, in their most important call yet, they hope to decide whether any of them will seize the moment...
Then, starting in the late 1960s, three paleontologists - Harry Whittington of the University of Cambridge in England and his two students, Derek Briggs and Simon Conway Morris - embarked on a methodical re-examination of the Burgess Shale fossils. Under bright lights and powerful microscopes, they coaxed fine-grain anatomical detail from the shale's stony secrets: the remains of small but substantial animals that were overtaken by a roaring underwater mudslide 515 million years ago and swept into water so deep and oxygen-free that the bacteria that should have decayed their tissues couldn't survive. Preserved were not just...
...resolution doesn't go into detail about the structure after autonomy has been gained, and I think there's a need for clarification," he said...
Readers who turn to books for escape from the dailiness of life will find little respite in Leverich's biography. He is a great one for minutiae--bills, appointments, schedules--as if by the sheer amassing of mundane detail he could arrest his notoriously flighty subject. The book is a solid job, but at times a weighty one--as dense as a memorial stone...