Word: precisionism
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Gingrich doesn't have much use for theories about his choice to pursue so much power in life. "You're trying to find a psychological compulsion for what in fact was simply a decision," he says. "The decision's not complicated. The world is real. Some people should do what...
Speaking by telephone from a bullet-pocked control tower, Air Force Colonel Neal Patton, who has been in charge of installing runway lights and precision navigation equipment and otherwise getting the field ready, expresses confidence that it can handle the planned traffic. But he adds, with a laugh, "We're...
How Scheiber made her fortune is as fascinating as why she gave it away. By the time she retired from a $3,150-a-year auditor's job at the Internal Revenue Service in 1943, she was already investing her $5,000 savings account in a stock portfolio. During her...
With pinpoint precision and in fearfully good style, Ace refines every element of the Tangiers. Not even the chefs escape criticism, as Ace demands more consistency in the number of blueberries in each muffin.
By measuring with unprecedented precision the distance to the distant galaxy M100 (56 million light-years), a team of researchers led by Wendy Freedman of the Carnegie Observatories in Pasadena, California, provided the most accurate yardstick ever for gauging the expansion rate, and thus the age, of the universe. Their...