Word: baring
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...back gate of the plant. He enters his ground-floor office, a drab room whose walls are bare except for a few scattered snapshots of former Rubery Owen union officials. Spoiling for the day to begin, he makes his first phone call to a works manager. When it goes unanswered, Peach thunders: "Management is just getting out of bloody...
...system of interchangeable parts and Taylor's concept of elementary operations to create a sequential system of chained work organized on mechanical conveyors or power-driven assembly-line manufacture. On Ford's assembly line, work was conveyed past files of semiskilled workers, and what began with the bare frame of the chassis ended, 300 feet and 93 minutes later, as a complete automobile. Man, time, pace and machine had become a unified whole...
...President suggested that he might not pursue détente forever if the Russians fail to reciprocate. If progress is not made in the SALT II talks, he said, he would have no choice but to raise defense spending, now at the "bare minimum," by $2 billion to $3 billion over the next two years. "This is one place where second best is worth nothing...
Berio's, usual treatment of poetic texts is another example of his desire to real things apart, to lay them bare. Instead of using words for their meaning, he uses them purely for sound value. He manipulated consonants and vowel sounds like musical elements, altering them and recombining them to create emotional effects...
...tones, suggests itself to him through his study of Tai Chi, one of the Chinese martial arts. Through these exercises, which teach a stylized and highly disciplined form of self-defense. Chen claims to have acquired the self-control and profound concentration that he brings to his conducting. The bare hands are the weapons both for self-defense and for conducting, and Chen has trained his to function "with their own mind, and yet without mind...