Word: architecting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...expectations come true? One way is to turn big department stores into shoppers' lures-places where customers will go to find one item, then linger to buy others. That takes design, and one man with the kind of designing eye that merchants appreciate is a 36-year-old architect-artist named Kenneth Walker. He is something of an iconoclast, merrily discarding what he calls "formula work-all those fancy chandeliers and moldings" in favor of fresher approaches...
...large businesses, and to assume that responsibility themselves. But the authors are realistic--they admit that most people are afraid to face the prospect of building a house on their own. As Cole says, "They cannot take the first step toward their shelter without thinking they need an architect, an engineer, and a contractor...
Murdoch convinced Schiff that he would retain the paper's liberal editorial stance, as well as that policy's principal architect, James Wechsler. Post employees last week were generally optimistic about Murdoch. "He can't make the paper any worse," said one reporter. "It has to get better." The staff also hopes that Murdoch will be willing to spend the vast sums necessary to automate the Post's outdated production system (a task that would probably involve buying off the paper's tough unions), expand the paper's weak suburban distribution and fatten...
...Jimmy Carter's confidant, factotum and campaign manager from the first, Hamilton Jordan, 32, can be described as the chief architect of his boss's campaign. In an interview with TIME Correspondent John Stacks, Jordan (pronounced Jer-din) discussed his winning strategy...
...music, "the work of leading serious composers is listened to only by other leading serious composers," Wolfe said. "You might as well get an upland Baptist to tell a funny story about the birth of Jesus" as to get today's architects to stray from the ideas of Walter Gropius, the German-born American architect who founded the Bauhaus school and headed the Harvard Graduate School of Design...