The reports, which have been posted on the government's Web site, www.recovery.gov, provide unusual transparency for government spending, showing how much money each contractor has received and where the work has been done, right down to the ZIP code.
The painting that commemorates Private Walker's labours shows not only the quilt and exactly how it is done, right down to the difficulty of keeping each fiddly little triangle from curling up as you stitch it to another, but something else too.
That's what she has done, right down to the inclusion of a few purposeful ghosts.
And so the film looks even more appropriate now than it ever did, right down to the military bugle sounding as Boudu beds the bookseller's wife.
And in that instance where the protocols really dictated what people out at the periphery had to do, right down to their most nitty-gritty decisions, the thinking could not keep up with the scale of this disaster and its complexity.
The businesslike road sequences in "Ronin" show he knows exactly what he's doing, right down to putting Robert DeNiro behind the wheel of the Mercedes-Benz 6.9, the old-school titan that may be the fastest production car the Stuttgart manufacturer ever made.
Or perhaps we wonder how year after year a private club can get away with staging one of the world's major sporting events completely on its own terms — from tight control over ticket sales to the ability to tell a major television network what to do, right down to the number of minutes of commercial time permitted and the individual announcers allowed.
And indeed it does, right down to the instruction booklets.
When the fog of a long season of depression lifts, and the manic energy arrives, bringing with it a bunch of irrational decisions, it's easy to flush your meds — which is exactly what I did — right down the 50-year-old pink toilet, in the first house I ever owned.
While this benefits us because we think everything Johnny does, right down to his cranky, whiny, grandmotherly emails to us, is funny and we also aren't ashamed to put toys on our shelves well into our adulthood, we still have to wonder if Johnny isn't wasting his time making toys that the target demographic of toys children won't want to touch.
"There is a lot to be done, and some of it needs to be done right here down at the ground, not only at the high policy level, and I feel like I can be a part of that". Mike Pflanz is a journalist reporting from South Sudan for UNICEF.
