President Obama's State Of The Union speech was notable in one stylistic respect, because it held to an absolute minimum details about his policy proposals.
All of which is confessed in absolute unflinching detail, with a nod and a wink and a pinch of Cockney slang, in Lonely Boy (published by Da Capo), his painfully honest, just-published must-read memoir, co-written with Ben Thompson.
But the data we're given, for the most part, simply details absolute levels of lending and changes over time, without attempting to take into account these other factors, which forces us to go on qualitative, rather than quantitative, data.
We may never know with absolute certainty the details of their interactions, for the period in question was more than forty years ago, and neither of these fine Americans is with us today.
Chatter and non-chatter cutting states, associated with the orthogonal cutting of stiff metal cylinders, are identified through an analysis of the ratios of the mean absolute deviations of details of the biorthogonal 6,8 wavelet decomposition of cutting force measurements.
To facilitate this, we recommend a flow diagram detailing absolute numbers of subjects at each relevant time point, with clear illustration of drop-outs and the reason for cessation and/or exclusion at each relevant stage.
Christians have made tyrannical absolutes from the details: Adam and Eve were straight and monogamous.
While his absolute determination to detail Noble's idiosyncratic ordinariness -- sordid as parts of it may be -- gives this book weight, it simultaneously raises the question of just how much the ordinary is worth in art after all.
If the IPO goes according to plan and management follows through with absolute attention to detail (and the market cooperates) Morgans could be on its way to finding new value for its existing and future properties.
