Word: designate
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...operators what needs to be done, sometimes by regulating variables on production lines, and sometimes--mainly in the chemical and petroleum business--by running the routine operations of a whole plant. Computers may masquerade as tools, but they are better at cutting out machine tools than humans. They can design bridges, ships, and auto bodies...
...After the second hearing the highway department would have to go and reconsider the proposed road, make adjustments in its design plans and come up with a new design. With all the legal points which could come up for appeal, opponents of the road could delay it for a long, long time," said Francis C. Turner, director of Public Roads...
...overall design effect is not, as the Beatles have implied in interviews, the brilliance of Edelmann's concoctions, but the pervasive atmophere of warmed-over Milton Glaser. His Signet Shakespeare cover figures, Eye Magazine poster art, and advertising lay-out landscapes abound with stifling frequency, serving as the film's only visual leveller. The film purports to be innovative but is in reality a digest of today's kickiest commercial art on sale in various and provocative forms...
Neither in environment nor in heredity can I find the exact instrument that fashioned me, the anonymous roller that pressed upon my life a certain intricate watermark whose unique design becomes visible when the lamp of art is made to shine through life's foolscap...
Sometimes the contribution made by anthropometry is quite modest. Because stewardesses are wearing short skirts these days, for example, engineers working on McDonnell Douglas' new DC-10 air bus have designed the emergency ladder leading from the lower service level to the abovedeck public cabin with rungs that are relatively far apart. "If dresses get long again," says a company spokesman, "we can always change ladders." A more far-reaching chore is that of doing something about bathtubs, which might make a lot more sense if they were equipped with reclining backs, more handholds and nonslip surfaces. The number...