Word: stickler
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...known as a rigid, terrible-tempered conservative; capital gossips predicted a wave of resignations from the Federal Reserve staff. Instead, Burns has won the admiration of staff economists by working them hard but listening closely to their views. The governors grant Burns their full respect. He is a stickler for clarity, who, according to one insider, sharply asks "What do you mean by that?" of speakers at Federal Reserve meetings...
...meeting in Kitzbühel to decide how to stop the French. The only sure way is to kidnap French Ski Director Jean Béranger. Women's team coach for nine years before succeeding Honoré Bonnet as head coach this season, Béranger is no stickler for style. He believes in "doing things empirically. A skier's morphology, his character, his personality should determine his style. There's only one thing that counts and that's his speed." Unlike Bonnet, who was always referred to as "Monsieur," Béranger...
Oops-awkward bowing there. Galamian is a stickler on that. He teaches all of his students the same technique: the bow parallel to the bridge and the arm extended in a natural sweep. His method is based on mastery of the fundamentals. Paul Zukofsky's first six months of lessons, for instance, were devoted entirely to the A-minor scale...
...Scala's Claudio Abbado, 34, is a stern, urgent pursuer of the long musical line, a Toscanini-like stickler for both fine-mesh detail and overall coherence. Imperious and intensely concentrated, he spurs an orchestra on with a clean, incisive beat, often achieving a surging pulse and crackling inner tension. He excels with the original texts of operas, giving them what one critic calls an "electric-shock treatment...
...people. He hears hundreds of petitions each week in his $6,000,000 sun-reflector-coated palace, settles even minor matters in his government, including the marital disputes of his staff. He finds time to dance a spry quadrille at soirees in the palace and is much less a stickler than he used to be about top hats and cutaways at state functions; at a dam dedication last year, he allowed the men to wear dark suits...