Word: precisionism
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The new vigilance verges on obsession. Paddy wagons can be seen prowling Moscow's streets, collecting drunks and depositing them for the night in sobering-up stations run by the police. Bartenders are measuring out vodka with stingy precision or refusing service altogether when customers reach the legal limit.
In fact, there were seven moons altogether, as seven members of the Yale Precision Marching Band dropped their pants in front of the Crusader bench at the Yale Bowl.
The essays of Stephen Jay Gould are good antidotes. In his fourth collection, the paleontologist, evo- lutionary biologist and Harvard lecturer continues to combine precision with an energetic style. On the ever-hypnotic copulatory practices of the praying mantis, for example: "The male, blessed with paired organs for transferring sperm...
"Defensively," Stull says, with brevity and precision, "we're very strong."
But, you may argue, nothing forces a student to arrive before breakfast on the 18th of September. This is an unrealistic argument. The reality is that registration occurs on the 18th of September between the hours of 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., and the said letter indicates that if a...