There are many nice touches, including Rowling's portrait of the social worker's gutless boyfriend, who relishes how, in an argument with a lover, you can "obscure an emotional issue by appearing to seek precision".
"Not good, like, one out of a hundred?", he presses her, seeking statistical precision.
Seeking more precision, Dr. Pohl and his colleagues created atoms in which the electron had been replaced by a muon, which is a sort of fat electron.
But its real target, sought out with a heat-seeking precision, is far weightier, and that is America itself.
At one level, the formulas reflect the continuing tendency of political science to seek numerical precision by relating disparate facts: comparing roll call votes with House re-election rates, for example, or determining the frequency of pork-barrel spending by senators of different parties.
While theologians are frequently satisfied to work imaginatively with symbols, images, and metaphors, without regard to the question what the symbols are symbolic of, philosophers of religion normally seek more precision and conceptual clarification.
Seeking more quantitative precision in Historical recalls, on the other hand, may not be productive; our data showed that there was not much precision in participants' ability to recall the amount of time over the course of a year for a given activity.
By seeking greater clarity and precision in certain areas, the bishops and the Holy See will be able to move forward to achieve the recognitio necessary to implement the norms fully".
But for seven visitors seeking to impose a precision and predictability on political life that even those working in its midst cannot discern, Vice President Al Gore has already beaten Gov. George W. Bush of Texas -- sort of.
She also issued a smattering of wrong notes, as if in tribute to Serkin's philosophy of seeking the perfection beyond precision — the truth of the noblest, most honest effort.
