Word: precisionism
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In his most condescending manner, Begin urged his opponent to be calm ("Sit down and be quiet, Mr. Peres, and teach yourself some precision") and defended his spotty economic record as well as he could-a claimed 13.5% rise in real wages during his four years in office. (Understandably, he...
It is like stepping into an earlier age. The scene is the shop floor of the A & A Tool Co. in southern Connecticut, and the spectacle is of American precision craftsmanship tooling up for the 1980s. The vision is not an encouraging one. Jammed between noisy lathes and oily drill...
While the six twin-engine F-15s provided a protective umbrella, the specially armed F-16s screamed into their bombing runs. The lead plane fired a pair of video-guided precision "smart" bombs, to punch through predetermined spots in the domed concrete. The following aircraft launched their own explosives through...
We wish to assure you, dear comrades, that, in these difficult days, the [Soviet] Central Committee, all Soviet Communists and the entire Soviet nation are in solidarity with your struggle. Our point of view has been expressed with precision in the statement of Comrade L. Brezhnev at the Soviet Party...
But there is something a little too clean about Galbraith's life, the unwanted fat comes away from the meat with too much precision. We learn much of Galbraith's political struggles but little about what he was ultimately fighting for; it seems almost as if he were trying to...