Word: precisionism
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In April of last year, when the identification and mass production of the AIDS virus was announced in Washington, Health Secretary Heckler vowed that blood-screening tests would be available in record time. Medical scientists made good on that promise within nine months. Still, the fact that the test kits...
Their optimism was soon dashed. On the first day of flight, the astronauts tried to deploy a new instrument-pointing system (IPS), designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles...
How so? The comedy is Buster Keaton-- ish in its precision timing. Chow's swooping camera is as nimble, and as respectful of Hong Kong film tradition, as the veteran actors he has assembled. The film merrily flouts the laws of time and physics. Teeth fly upward in slo-mo...
Such incidents happen a lot, which is why timing and precision are so crucial to the success of the team.
In his dealings with Congress over the past four years, Ronald Reagan has been a kind of Music Man. With careful timing and precision planning, the President has usually been able to march into River City and razzle-dazzle a majority of legislators into joining his parade. Only last month...