Word: constructed
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...intended to make their owners feel science fictional. After a night playing with the food processor, the CD player and the PC, who wouldn't feel he had seen the future? The playfulness of high-art designers, however, is of a more rarefied kind. Instead of making gadgets, they construct jokes. Sometimes the jokes are academic, such as Michael Graves' neo-Biedermeier chair (1981) and Robert Venturi's line of Chippendale, Queen Anne and Empire parodies (1984). Sometimes the jokes are perverse, and the subject is the material itself. Scott Burton has carved chairs from solid granite (1984) and Gehry...
Small, quiet American towns have become popular havens for Japanese manufacturers. This week Toyota Motor is expected to join the crowd of companies building plants in small towns. Toyota will announce plans to spend more than $500 million to construct a plant in Georgetown, Ky., a bucolic community twelve miles north of Lexington in the gently rolling hills of Scott County. When it opens in 1988, the factory will produce 200,000 midsize cars annually and employ between 2,000 and 3,000 workers...
Harvard's best answer to the overcrowding problem so far has been to construct a book storage facility in Southborough, Mass. The first module of the Harvard Depository, Inc. (HDI) will be able to hold 1.6 million books upon its completion in April. The site, which is a half-hour drive from the Yard, has room for nine more such units to be built as the collection grows...
Although such blind repetition may be sufficient for commercial applications, says Lozano-Perez, it does not exploit the full potential of the robot. He hopes to construct robots that need only general instructions, instead of the highly specified directions that present-day robots require. His creations would then by themselves identify needed parts, convey them to pre-ordained locations, and work them around--as a human might--until they fit properly...
...Grossman's recent article, "Think Hard", concerning the moral implications of joining the final clubs, is unfair in that he uses false information in trying to blame the problems of society on such clubs. Rather than attempt to construct a realistic argument against their existence, he has adopted a radical, emotionally-fired argument blaming them for "the fires of prejudice and aristocratic elitism" which exist in American society...