Word: nit
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...works very hard. He works long hours," Managing Auditor Joseph J. Casarano says of his boss. "And he's picky, very nit-picky...
...someone who's going to be sitting out there, support Powell because he's a very exciting speaker," said Webb. "I don't see why we have to nit-pick. We're grownups here...
While Rowe, 46, says he plans to put more emphasis on scholarship and research at the school, he must also face the nit-and-girt issues of the school's deficit and financial aid woes...
...doctors, already beset by nit-picking insurance companies, shrinking Medicaid payments and malpractice lawyers, the gag rule seemed the final intrusion -- one that was doubly galling because it came from an Administration many had supported. Says Alan Altman, a gynecologist in Brookline, Mass.: "((The government)) bothers me in the pocketbook, it bothers me in the delivery room, but it has never before bothered me in the consultation room." Dr. Laura Sirott, a Pasadena, Calif., obstetrician- gynecologist who describes herself as a past supporter of Bush, complains that the gag rule violates a patient's right to be fully informed. "This...
Much of the material in these publications is interesting, and some of the criticism is justified. But the watchdogs frequently undercut their own credibility by their whininess, their grating tone of moral rectitude and % their compulsive nit-picking. A case can be made that people who write articles critiquing photo captions in the New York Times really ought to get out more...