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...design" applications, CAD/ CAM equipment enables engineers or draftsmen sitting in front of computer screens to make precise, elaborate and exquisitely detailed drawings of any piece of machinery or industrial part imaginable, without ever using rulers, compasses or any of the other traditional tools of the drafting trade. They can simply "sketch" freehand with an electronic pen right on the screen, and the computer, reaching into its memory, gives the rough shapes the precise tolerances requested, even rendering them in three dimensions, or creating solid forms...
Astonishing productivity gains are becoming almost routine with CAD/CAM technology. Says Paul Quantz, a CAD/ CAM consultant for Dallas-based Productivity International: "By using CAD/CAM, the normal cycle from conception of a product to shipment to customers tends, within five years, to be cut in half. At the same time, potential plant output itself leaps by about...
...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...time to read. Wittily, polemically, almost lyrically, they talk talk talk talk talk. This exuberant cascade engulfs such subjects as parents and children, the guerrilla war between the sexes, love and marriage, feminism, socialism and capitalism, the new technology (circa 1909) and how to tell a gentleman from a cad...
Author Fraser, 56, an excellent popular historian (The Steel Bonnets) as well as a prolific screenwriter (The Three-and Four-Musketeers), is best known for his seven Flashman novels, the saga of a Falstaffian poltroon who for sheer cad-dishness has no equal in contemporary literature. Like the Flashman mock memoirs, which skewer the Victorian scene with such wealth of detail that many American reviewers at first thought them to be authentic historical documents, Mr. American teems with minutiae ranging from the price of the London & Northwestern train trip from Liverpool to London (just under $6, first class) to details...