Word: detailism
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...holds up. The Secretary, 54, suffers from hypertrophic cardiomyopathy, a heart malady causing shortness of breath and dizziness. Nine days after doctors installed a pacemaker in his chest, the irrepressible Pentagon chief was back in form last Saturday. Looking wan but energetic, the Defense Secretary showed his mastery of detail as he briefed reporters on the Administration's proposed 1994 defense budget of $263.4 billion, down $10 billion from the current year. The budget is the first installment in Clinton's proposal to slash a total of $124 billion from defense spending over the next five years...
...reviewed the missing portions of the Harvard PC. I told her as a general proposition we'd like the information to be right there, rather than cross-referenced or 'available on request,' and that in particular the information about certain kinds of investments needed to be furnished in more detail than they were doing...
...criticized President Clinton's state of the union address, saying it "only laid out the outlines. He needs to give up the details now." In fact, Clinton has presented his proposals in refreshingly honest detail...
...Earth, was rapturously received. The Day After, a re-creation of the End, was the TV event of the year. Psychologists were dispatched to help kids deal with its anticipated psychological fallout. Hundreds of thousands took to observing "Ground Zero Week," which featured the loving re-creation of every detail of the apocalypse -- in the weird expectation that rehearsing the End would prevent it. Those who refused to join the hysteria were diagnosed as suffering from "nuclearism" or "psychic numbing...
...never talked with the City Council candidate, but had talked with his campaign manager, Greg McCann. When I related our club's policy (Which was detailed in the article), McCann told me that he understood. I would have elaborated in more detail, but there was apparently no need at the time. In this case there are only three need at the time. In this case, there are only three ways in which the candidate could have felt snubbed: 1) miscommunication between himself and his manager on the then "accepted" reasons I gave, 2) after accepting my reasons, changing his mind...