Word: detailism
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...HARVARD EXAMINATION SYSTEM is designed, according to its promulgators, to test two specific things, knowledge of trends and knowledge of detail. Men approaching the examination problem have three choices: 1. flunking out, 2. doing work, or 3. working out some system of fooling the grader. The first choice of solution is too permanent and the second takes too long...
Each interview took more than an hour of slow, sentence-by-sentence translation. The witnesses went into vivid detail about what they had seen when they arrived on the scene: the plane's wreckage and the mangled bodies of the two airmen. Agreement on these details could have been orchestrated by the Vietnamese government, but small differences between the witnesses' stories seemed more likely to stem from the various times at which they arrived on the scene. Their accounts meshed in a way that would have been hard to coordinate...
Never have so few plundered so much from so many as did those financial buccaneers of the 1980s, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Martin Siegel and Dennis Levine. And not often has a story of white-collar crime been told in such juicy detail as in this best seller by the Wall Street Journal's front-page editor...
Never have so few plundered so much from so many as did those financial buccaneers of the 1980s, Ivan Boesky, Michael Milken, Martin Siegel and Dennis Levine. And not often has a story of white-collar crime been told in such juicy detail as in this best seller by the Wall Street Journal's front-page editor...
...COVER Detail of Raphael's Madonna del Granduca from Scala/Art Resource...