Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Governor and as candidate, Reagan had a reputation for disdain of detail. During the transition period, his "detachment" became a byword on both coasts. Now, preoccupied with the major speech on fiscal policy he will give in a few days, he raises a question about simplifying a point in his proposed tax-reduction plans. "I'm just thinking about the guy doing his return," Reagan explains. Meese says that the new tax rate tables will deal with the problem. Something else is rankling Reagan. His instinct is to cut the capital gains levy sooner rather than later. Says...
After the meeting, he attributed the proposal's tabling to "a general feeling that it's going to be hard to provide the legislation in enough detail and with legislation in enough detail and with enough zing to go past the Faculty Council...
...argument of political art - but as they actually were. Its model, often invoked by Flaubert, was the objective procedure of scientific thought, and its aim was to produce a perfectly limpid art in which the world would be mirrored. There is everything in common between the relentless detail in which the boredom and pointlessness of Emma Bovary's life was built up, and the minutely articulated jumble of reflections behind the blank-faced nana in Manet's Bar at the Folies-Bergère, 1882. Both works, in a sense, point forward to the "objective," molecular constellations...
...stars, of course, are best observed at night. But not just any night. To reveal anything in detail, the skies must be brilliantly clear, something that happens only about half of the time even in the most favorable climates. Moonlight or the glare from cities and highways can also spoil the view. As the twinkling of the stars shows, the dust and gases in the earth's atmosphere scatter heavenly light, thus limiting the effectiveness of every telescope, even such monsters as the 200-in. mirror atop California's Palomar Mountain...
...project's chief scientist, thinks the new instrument may be the most important telescope ever built. Lofted into earth orbit by the space shuttle, it will expand the astronomers' universe (increasing its observable volume 350-fold) and render whatever it reaches visible in exquisite new detail. The space telescope's primary lens-actually a mirror-will measure only 94 in. across, a middling size as large reflecting telescopes go. Yet it will provide images ten times sharper than the biggest instruments on the ground, including the new 236-in. Soviet telescope in the northern Caucasus. The NASA...