Word: details
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Wednesday, 21 hours after the quake, an army rescue detail halted its rescue prematurely. A seven-story building in a working- class Nishinomiya district had rolled over on its side, reportedly trapping 15 to 20 people within. The soldiers removed two bodies and then stopped digging. Shrugged a young lieutenant: ``We think it's hopeless. No one could have survived...
...booklet describes, in some detail, what the FAS plans to do with the $965 million it hopes to raise in the five-year capital campaign...
...case the climactic balloon drop following Bill Clinton's acceptance speech flopped. Ickes' tactic forced the balloon man to climb into the rafters to cut the netting with a large knife. The sight of an armed man climbing through the lights at Madison Square Garden drove Clinton's security detail to distraction. "The Secret Service guys nearly shot the guy out of the rafters," recalled a White House aide, "all because of Harold...
Ickes' ruthless attention to detail is the main reason the Clintons have tapped the deputy chief of staff to take control of the President's re- election campaign. The team Clinton chose last week to run the Democratic Party was specially designed by Ickes to prevent any challenges to Clinton from inside the party. And Clinton has begun quietly to hire people for his re-election campaign. The President held his first meeting on the campaign last week, and top aides are busy seeking outside advice on how to remind middle-class Americans of Clinton's accomplishments. Ickes' role...
...consoling lonely Charlotte. But Jack has found other reasons to dislike Yardley. He has noticed that Ward does all the hard digging for facts: He wanted to have it exactly right. Yardley hangs around waiting to put his stylish spin on what Ward uncovers. "We get into too much detail," Jack hears Yardley complain at one point. "It ruins the narrative flow." Yardley comes up with a crucial and convenient piece of the puzzle...