Word: details
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...absolutely solid," he says. More surprising, the Reagan Administration, which often finds itself at odds with human rights groups, responded favorably. Although officials were disappointed that the report paid little attention to Cuba and Nicaragua, a State Department spokesman declared: "It documents this problem in impressive and sickening detail...
...have to enter single file; of affairs that begin and end on chance remarks; of yearnings for culture buried deep within the city's most anonymous dwellers. But these virtues are nearly undone by relentless mannerisms. Whenever Everett reaches an impasse, he conveniently has a dream, recollected in detail that Freud would admire. Attempts at plain speaking frequently result in a piling on of cliches: Everett knows an object "like the back of his hand"; women have "impenetrable" eyes. Exclamation points detonate with the flatness of dropped light bulbs: "How warm the air was!"; "How his father talked...
...think that is an undemonstrated assumption and, in fact, it's an assumption which, if really examined, would not be accepted. Because what's wanted in a person who is teaching law is an ability to think about and communicate the range of issues at the levels of detail and breadth that Richard set out, and which I agreed with, and I don't believe that a person's race is a relevant factor in identifying the ability to do that. It would seem to me that the way you identify the ability to think broadly, deeply and powerfully about...
...administrators met with members of the board Tuesday night, but they refused to detail other recommendations they made...
Similarly, the committee voted unanimously against a resolution that would force General Electric to detail all potential exposure of employees to nuclear radiation and define corporate liability for any job-site nuclear accidents...