Word: precisionism
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Much of the controversy centered on Tribe's "lack of precision in record-keeping something that "one wouldn't expect from someone experienced in business-like practices."
On many issues, Weinberger is regarded as the leading hard-liner in the Reagan Administration. He has been skeptical even about pursuing nuclear arms-control negotiations with the Soviets. Yet last week's speech, which he wrote himself and delivered to the National Press Club, was prudent. And the...
Muzak is still conducting such tests, and still crowing over the results. At a firm called Precision Small Parts Inc. in Charlottesville, Va., for example, Muzak spent three months last year testing six women who spent their dreary days deburring very small items with dental drills. With Muzak in their...
Perhaps the next avenue of competition between Ariane and the space shuttle will be weight. Ariane V 11 carried a payload of 2.5 tons last week, while Discovery carried only 1.4 tons. The Europeans are planning to put more powerful rocket engines on the next Ariane, scheduled for 1986, allowing...
Belle-Linda Halpern, who plays Charlotte Corday, the fiery young woman who stabs Marat to death is at the same time a groggy somnambulist who can barely wield a knife: she shuffles about in circles and slumps to the floor while delivering impassioned soliloquies. Funny yet frightening, pitiful yet majestic...