Word: blueprinting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...thirty years Harvard's reputation as an innovator in undergraduate education has rested on the laurels won by the ground-breaking 1945 report, "General Education in a Free Society," informally known as the Redbook. When the report was published in 1946 it was hailed by the media as a "blueprint for education at all levels." The Redbook set out to suggest for the nation and to provide for the student at Harvard the core of knowledge "essential" for a "citizen in a free society" by requiring undergraduates to select a minimum number of courses fron a "General Education" curriculum...
...left as a legacy the most distinctive single body of composition in all of jazz. Where he got the gift even he could not say for sure. His father was a butler who worked up to caterer and then became a blueprint technician. As a boy, Duke showed more aptitude for painting than music. Piano lessons were a chore. "Before I knew it, I would be fashioning a new melody and accompaniment instead of following the score," he said. Indeed he never became a virtuoso pianist; his talent was as a leader, arranger and composer...
...priorities will be the daunting job of putting some content into "Project Independence," a slogan for an as yet unformed program to give the U.S. some degree of energy self-sufficiency by 1980. Immediately after being named FEO chief, he pledged to have a final blueprint for the project on President Nixon's desk by Nov. 1. He readily admits that morale among the FEO's more than 2,000 employees plunged when the Arab oil embargo was lifted in March and the agency lost the crisis spotlight. Says Sawhill: "It shook out the malcontents, but the right...
...idea is being tried in part to try to come up with a "blueprint for expanding it elsewhere," Heimert said...
...goes to the White House this week. Called "The Nation's Energy Future," it is the result of a crash effort by a Government task force headed by Dixy Lee Ray, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission. Given an extremely tight schedule-Nixon requested in June that a blueprint of energy research and development needs be delivered to him by Dec. 1-Ray's team tapped all available sources: Government agencies, private corporations and scientific institutions. After sifting the suggestions, it came up with guidelines for the U.S.'s research program for the next five years...