Word: design
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Several months ago, neighborhood residents filed a petition with the Cambridge Historical Commission to preserve the site, which is next to the Graduate School of Design's Gund Hall...
...postbaccalaureate level, over 3,000 students enrolled in courses--through Radcliffe's Graduate Studies Center--in liberal arts, womenis studies, management, landscape design, ceramics, publishing and career programs...
Last fall, Harvard announced that the Knafel Center, uniting the government department and several regional centers, would be built on two sites across Cambridge St. from each other. The problems attendant to a two-building plan have slowed the design process somewhat. Rough blueprints for the building will be unveiled in a few months...
...stunning espionage effort being coordinated from Beijing, whose spy rings have been stealing secrets in the U.S. for 20 years. The congressional committee set out six months ago to probe allegations that two U.S. aerospace companies, Hughes Electronics Corp. and Loral Space & Communications, provided China with critical rocket-design information that helped improve its ballistic missiles. The committee concluded that they had. But as the panel dug deeper, "we were quickly led to far more serious problems," says its Republican chairman, Representative Christopher...
...past few decades, as U.S.-China relations have thawed, Beijing has had plenty of access to exploit. Chinese scientists visiting U.S. nuclear-weapons labs in the 1980s, for instance, pilfered design information for the neutron bomb and the Trident-II nuclear warhead. Commercial attaches prowling trade shows have been spotted pocketing demonstration videos of weapons systems or dipping their ties into chemical solutions on display so that secret formulas can be analyzed. Chinese agents have even gone to U.S. military-surplus sales to buy scrapped aviation hardware...