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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...company will also construct new oxygen furnaces and blast furnaces, at least two continuous casting lines, finishing facilities and light structural steel and bar plants. The ambitious program is intended to replace the last of U.S. Steel's collection of obsolete equipment, better enabling the company to withstand the assaults of more modernized U.S. and foreign competitors, the inroads of substitute materials such as aluminum and plastics and the ever-present specter of rising labor costs...
Smaller Bathrooms. The world's major innkeepers knock on Tabler's door because he has developed a McNamaralike precision for slashing frills and space out of his buildings to make them cheaper to construct and operate. At Denver's Brown Palace annex, he eliminated 100 light fixtures (at $50 each) by doing away with the "up" and "down" elevator signal lights in the hallways; instead, he placed the lights just inside the elevator cars, where they show as the doors open. By installing towel hooks next to the wash basins, he encouraged customers to make do with...
...contrast. In the coming few weeks the team expects to get a second and possibly third replay of Mariner's tape. The replays will be compared with the first run in an effort to eliminate any picture distortions owing to false radio signals. JPL eventually plans to construct a model of the photographed portion of Mars-less than 1% of the planet's total surface...
...complete development plan will permit the University to construct a pleasantly landscaped pedestrian link between the Yard and the Law School campus and will remove a traffic bottleneck at the intersection of Kirkland and Cambridge Streets...
Active attention and participation of every student every minute is required, and the teacher must construct natural conversations, the advice sheet notes. Also, "Don't be satisfied that one student can get the right answer (least of all a volunteer). Be sure all understand and can perform...