Word: blueprinted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nation known for its fiery orators, Virgilio Barco Vargas is a notable exception. While campaigning for President, Barco plodded through speeches with all the verve of an engineer explaining a blueprint. Supporters of the 64-year-old liberal were reduced to saying, "Virgilio may be a bad candidate, but he'll make a great President." Colombians evidently agreed. When the May 25 ballots were tallied last week, Barco was elected by the largest landslide in the country's history. The M.I.T.-trained engineer, who monitored the results on his computer terminal, won 58% of the vote, vs. 36% for Conservative...
Haseltine's research focuses on the genetic structure of the AIDS virus. "We analyze the virus' DNA sequence to get a blueprint on what the virus can do," explains Haseltine, who is an associate professor of pathology at the Med School. His lab has found a number of unusual genes on the AIDS virus including the tat-gene which makes it possible for the AIDS virus to replicate many times faster than the average virus, and the art-gene which regulates the virus' speed of reproduction...
...Mitterrand for two hours and 17 minutes in the President's brocaded, Louis XVI-style study. Aides said that the two men, who barely know each other, maintained a tone of utmost courtesy throughout the session. Together they hammered out an agreement on what one Chirac aide called "a blueprint of what they wanted their working methods to be, and of their respective domains of responsibility...
Betty Friedan has dubbed it a "deceptive, backlash book." Erica Jong has called it the kind of work that "could start a revolution" and "serve as blueprint for a new era of feminist activism." Those heated reactions were only a small part of a new controversy slowly beginning to churn in U.S. feminist circles. Its focus: a newly published 461-page study that examines why, despite the furor of the feminist revolution in the '60s and '70s, women in the U.S. labor force remain substantially poorer than their West European counterparts. The book's most startling claim: the feminist movement...
...that by putting the right people in positions of authority, the economy will perform better. He announced last June that the Politburo had rejected the Five-Year Plan for 1986-1990 because it encouraged waste. The longtime director of the State Planning Committee, which had drawn up the economic blueprint, was sacked...