Word: precisionism
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After a military band played both national anthems, an honor guard of several hundred Soviet soldiers marched past with jackboot precision. Crowds waving miniature Polish and Soviet flags lined the roadside as a 50-limousine motorcade whisked Jaruzelski, his aides and their Soviet hosts into the capital. Marveled one Western...
During this meeting Mao substituted precision for his characteristic allusions. He began by asking what Chou and I had been discussing.
The system lends itself to manipulation. A bureau chief who disagrees with the Secretary can exploit it for procrastination. In 1975 the Assistant Secretary in charge of Africa managed to delay my dealing with Angola simply by using the splendid machinery so methodically to "clear" a memorandum I had requested...
Partly out of rebellion and partly out of personal style, Reese refuses to follow his sport to the realm of scientific precision. He is a noted non-practicer who doesn't believe in conditioning--it's only his competitiveness that gets him through.
On my first day in Jerusalem, I could sense that Israel had crossed the psychological Rubicon; it was at least thinking about moving to the west of Quneitra, beyond the pre-1973 defense line. The grudging Israeli procedures, the interminable sessions, the innuendoes about duress, the Talmudic precision, the obvious...