Word: precisionism
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In 1954, to get more laboratory space and capital, Link Aviation, Inc. joined up with General Precision Equipment Corp., a big grab-bag holding and management company that includes 16 other subsidiaries making everything from theater equipment and industrial controls to missile components. Link later became president of the parent...
Such a preoccupation with form stemmed from Harvard's belief in education as a discipline of the mind--a pencil-sharpener supplying precision to the basic materials.
As the cadets rushed to get ready for an inspection, top academy officers were worrying over the kind of details that always seem to interrupt the textbook version of military precision. The dining room chairs (with under-seat cap racks) had not yet arrived; two colonels and two majors knocked...
In tournaments, a pair's score on each deal depends on how the partnership fares in comparison with rival pairs playing identical hands at the other tables. On this particular deal, because Goren refrained from doubling, Goren-Sobel gained an extra eleven match points. Those eleven were decisive; Goren...
All the performers (including a French poodle) go through their paces with well-drilled precision. Only Gene Lyons gives a natural, restrained performance; the others are considerably exaggerated. The general consistency of approach in the acting, though, leads me to suspect that this production is almost 100-per cent director...