Word: approach
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Against such accomplishments, notably development of new missiles, aircraft and ordnance, McNamara's critics charge him with large debits. He burdened controversial proposals with a rigid approach that gained enemies in Congress. Partly for this reason, he was never able to fully implement good ideas such as reform of the National Guard and the Army Reserve...
...aircraft, which he promoted as an Air Force-Navy plane that would save $1 billion or more through "commonality." The Air Force model is turning out well enough, but the Navy is still dissatisfied with its overweight version, and the cost is far above original estimates. The computer approach occasionally cut too close to the bone, as when Army requests for helicopters in 1963 and 1964 were reduced, only to cause shortages in Viet Nam soon after...
...time, Dr. Wright concludes, to approach the situation freshly and begin to test men at age 40 for changes that may interfere with their ability to do their jobs. There are, he suggests, several uncomplicated psychological and mental tests for this purpose. As a sample he noted one of the simplest: ask a man to subtract seven from 100, then seven from the remainder, and so on. "It's amazing," said Dr. Wright, "how many people...
...from Mr. Robert Yelton, a second year student in the Graduate School of Design, in which he criticized the appointment of a single architect and maintained that there should be an inter-disciplinary group drawn from such disciplines as sociology, economics, politics, and psychology to work out "a comprehensive approach to the design of the environment...
...sympathetic to Mr. Yelton's point of view, but I suggest that this is exactly the approach that Mr. Andrews will take. He is strongly opposed to the concept of architecture as objet d'art. He believes very intensely that design is only a means of embodying the total function of a building. He is immensely sensitive to the needs of the users of a building, and he constantly sees a building as part of a larger social environment. I think what you will get from Mr. Andrews is the kind of approach that Mr. Yelton describes without the cumbrous...