Word: minutia
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...provide all kinds of minutia about racing," said McGowan, who will also help out in casting extras. "We're looking for guys who can really crank out work. Remember, these are potential Olympic athletes, they have to look like they know what they're doing--for a few strokes at least...
...weren't warned. Anyone who memorized tomes of Harvard minutia to obtain the privilege to be a shill for the administration is probably not a good nighttime companion in the first place, but we were bored...
Leave the minutia for later. The University should stop beating around the bush and just say it's sorry...
...magnify our focus on the minutia and understand the greater problem and its cause. The real problem is this: By any standard of academic achievement, including standards with no inherent bias, the Latino and African American students are, on average, well below average. We must be bold and accept this situation, and take steps to remedy...
...Nicholas and his wife Alexandra had from adolescence to the last hours of their lives kept diaries. The intimate story of their marriage, its intense emotional pitch and devastating political consequences, is told largely in their own voices. The regime that took their lives also believed in recording the minutia of its terror. Glasnost gave Radzinsky access to information that had long been locked away. Radzinsky discovered a folder headed "File on the Family of Former Tsar Nicholas the Second 1918-1919." The file included the written statement of Yakov Yurovsky, a longtime revolutionary who had commanded the execution squad...