Word: details
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Police detectives in New Jersey could hardly believe their ears. A mobster hit man named Joseph Rodriguez was spilling detail after gory detail about the 1972 slaying of Mafia Boss Emmanuel ("Nello") Cammarata. Rodriguez, 32, fearful that a contract was out for his own head, hoped for police protection by implicating himself and a New Jersey father and son in the killing. Rodriguez described with professional precision how the son, deftly disguised as a jogger, took aim at Cammarata as he was walking away from a North Miami bistro and drilled him with eight rounds from a .30-cal. carbine...
While the rule should inspire consumers to buy with more confidence, it does not please most lenders. Some object to the sweeping language. In reply, the FTC notes that though 40 states have passed laws defining in detail the liability of the holder in due course, few of them were really effective because merchants and lenders found loopholes. Another complaint is that the rule will force small lending institutions to do costly additional work in screening contracts. That, in turn, could lead to higher interest rates and thus harm low-income people who most need installment credit. Perhaps...
...what is The New York Times? It is a paper with a crankiness for detail that its 800,000-plus readers trust will give them a closer version of the truth than that in any other newspaper...
...Poland for the red-hot reporter. But not for long, as he was expelled from that country in 1959. Rosenthal says now that the Polish Ministry of Foreign Affairs told him they did not challenge the accuracy of his stories, but that he had "written very deeply and in detail about the internal situation...and the Polish government cannot tolerate such reporting...
...time as he enters the primitive Venezuelan jungle, and the introduction of the French Revolution to her Caribbean colonies: one ship brings both the edict emancipating slaves and the first guillotine. These historical novels spread out spectacles of lyrical description, rendering a fantastic American reality in overwhelming baroque detail...