Word: bayes
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Dukakis the candidate will rely on the experiences of Dukakis the governor as he attempts to translate the Bay State's economic success into a model for national economic policy that has popular appeal...
Academic Dean Albert Carnesale, who has advised Dukakis on nuclear power and the Seabrook, N.H. power plant, says that Dukakis "never did campaign from the Kennedy School." Instead, "just like any teacher, he learned a lot from teaching," he says. Dukakis won the support of Bay State voters in the next gubernatorial election...
...long ago, important American graphic design was thought to occur exclusively in New York City. But San Francisco, for one, has been changing that. Starting about 20 years ago, a new generation of designers came of age in the Bay Area, formally trained but unconventional by temperament. At the same time, decoration became fashionable again, modernist doctrine loosened, and a sort of regional self-infatuation overtook the arts. Baby-boomer entrepreneurs, with their hip clothing companies, upscale shops and software firms, became prime graphic-design clients. By the early 1980s the most talented of the San Francisco designers were creating...
Among the San Franciscans, two are especially prominent, and have demonstrated particular staying power: Michael Vanderbyl, 40, and Michael Manwaring, 45. Although they have highly distinct styles, their parallels are striking. Both were born and reared in the Bay Area and educated at California art schools; both are lapsed devotees of European modernism. Despite success, both have kept their offices small. They do have some stylistic moves in common -- both show a fondness for fan shapes and silhouettes, and both have recently looked to turn-of-the-century Architect Josef Hoffmann for inspiration -- yet both have survived several years...
...life in many cases." His practical ideas are deeply elegant: outdoor maps for the retail center of a Marin County town will be three dimensional, cast in bronze and overlaid with a directional grid. For his latest commission, the grandest yet, he will help oversee the renovation of Bay Meadows, a Thoroughbred racetrack built in the 1930s...