Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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While reluctant to detail his own criticisms of divestiture as a means of changing companies' behavior, Cabot says he would be hamstrung if Harvard imposed a ban on South Africa-related investments...
...campaign Svengali. And because the words in these pages are so loaded with a spirit of certitude, the diary is both fascinating and disappointing as a blueprint for action by one of the country's most promising liberal pols. If one manages to wade through pages of irrelevant detail--lots of short, simple sentences, topped off by the gee-whiz exclamation point--one will find a clearer definition of the Democratic raison d'etre than any offered up by milquetoast Walter F. Mondale...
Koppel says that he also cares about his family and his privacy. He will not speak in any detail about his four children, whom he hopes to keep out of the public eye. And he notes with pride that his wife took and passed the bar exam on her first attempt and now practices...
...keeps a navy blue, civil defense jumpsuit in her car in case she ever needs to assume command after a major earthquake. In the day-to-day affairs of San Francisco, which she has run with increasing sureness for the past five years, virtually no detail is too minor to claim her attention. For her efforts, she can point to some impressive results: San Francisco ended its past fiscal year with a budget surplus of $122.6 million, and major crime rates fell by about 10% in both 1982 and 1983. Last year she not only survived a recall vote engineered...
Other detractors regard Feinstein's attention to detail as bordering on the obsessive and claim that the city would benefit if she delegated more authority. A close aide to Feinstein grouses that she edits correspondence written over her name so closely that "you could write a novel in the time it takes to write a letter...