Word: precisionism
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Holden’s brisk, kind voice accentuates his innate attention to detail. He treats every sentence out of his mouth with delicate precision, as if it is to be his last, and often frames them with dramatic gestures. During conversation, he interacts with his environment almost as much as...
“Each lecture was like a jewel in its crystalline clarity and precision,” Kondoleon said. “Students would applaud after each lecture, impressed by the elegance of the presentation.”
Every war has its wonder weapon. In Afghanistan, it was the Predator, the unmanned drone that would loiter, invisibly, over the battlefield before unleashing a Hellfire missile on an unsuspecting target. The Gulf War marked the debut of precision-guided munitions, and in Vietnam helicopters came of age. World War...
Details of what the war might be like are also becoming clearer. The planned force of some 250,000 soldiers is just half the size used in the first Gulf War, because the U.S. military intends to use far more precision-guided munitions and because the Pentagon believes many Iraqi...
“In space you can measure smaller drops in brightness with much higher precision than on the ground,” Torres said.