Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Nevertheless, McDaniel is determined to stay with the business he loves. That attitude can be seen in his attention for detail. For example, he disdains commercial spot removers and often tests two or three chemicals himself to remove difficult stains. Says he: "This is a personalized business. Individually owned dry cleaners do the best. You just don't work in those big chains like you do in your own plant...
Foti thinks the statues must date from not much later than the Archaic period, which ended in 450 B.C., since their posture is the typical Archaic stance, with the left foot forward. The bronze alloy is typical of that period. But the delicacy and realism of the detail and the elaboration of musculature suggest that the sculptors were already moving toward the exquisite modeling that became the glory of classical Greece in the age of Pericles...
Along with personnel and equipment, the CIA needs a boost in morale. In an agency of special sensitivity, Turner treated CIA officials much like swabbies on a deck detail. He eliminated 820 posts in the Directorate of Operations, dismissing veteran officers with curt notes. CIA subordinates reacted by circulating Gilbert and Sullivan parodies of their spit-and-polish director...
...Chicago's Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center and at Harvard, Northwestern and the University of Michigan, involved 1,900 men recruited in 1957 from Western Electric Co.'s Hawthorne Works plant near Chicago. Then aged 40 to 55. the subjects were questioned in detail about their diets and personal habits. Using a checklist of 195 foods, researchers determined what and how much the men had eaten in the preceding 28 days. The participants' wives and employees at the company cafeteria were asked how food was prepared. Each subject was rated low, middle or high...
...WORKS because Doig manages to compress meaning into the details of the natural surroundings. Rooted in the soil, always sensitive to weather and view, Doig evokes the Northwest with such an intimate touch that we actually re-experience it. His words and thoughts are religiously down to earth. Nothing can be understood without knowing the land, hugging it, runnings one's fingers over it, as he does at the end when he locates a swan and the initials "JGS" which his "winter brother" had carved in the sandstone at Neah Bay. If he reads Swan's dairy about the place...