Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jordan has denied all the Studio 54 charges, and the case is hardly the kind Congress had in mind when it drafted the Ethics in Government Act. The law began to take shape after President Nixon fired Watergate Special Prosecutor Archibald Cox. Congress set out to specify in detail the powers and tenure of a special prosecutor...
...only twelve miles from Northern Ireland, near an area known as a refuge for Provos fleeing across the border. Thus local police kept watch on the castle for the one month a year Mountbatten spent there (the rest of the time it was rented), and an unobtrusive personal security detail rotated shifts throughout...
Once at Jari, Ludwig ignores the successful projects to concentrate on problem areas. Like a conceptual architect who carries the blueprints in his mind, he supervises new undertakings down to the most minute detail. Yet he is becoming less dictatorial. The present project chief, John Trescot Jr., 54, an ace cost cutter who has been on the job for six months, claims that he can actually argue with him over decisions. Ludwig is beginning to accept a substantial dilution of his authority. He has created an eight-man committee that exercises an overall policymaking role. Also, Ludwig has willed Jari...
...would be a neglect of the obvious to write about America without mentioning Tocqueville, or Africa without a nod to Conrad. Those authors are not only fixed points to steer by but fetishes that protect a writer from foundering in swamps of detail. Edward Hoagland does not get around to his ritual reference until page 91 of African Calliope: A Journey to the Sudan: "Far from learning something new about the black-white torque that is such a misery in America, here I was freer of it. But the other reason why I had come to Africa, instead...
...intense reverence for material: the density and solidity of rocks, the cannonball moon floating in a dark-filtered sky over Half Dome or the New Mexico desert, the way a geyser's spume becomes solid, a thick blade of water. There is an extraordinary distinctness and variety of detail, held in coherence by Adams' sense of tone...