Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...trouble is money. The ships are being paid for under old contracting procedures that the companies insist did not recognize how rapidly inflation and design changes would kick up their construction costs. Result: builders are presenting $2.4 billion in past claims; the Navy will only recognize $1.9 billion. Meanwhile, the shipbuilders are forced to dip into their own working capital to finance construction. They complain that the Navy has been trying to build too many ships with too little money. "You cannot expect a private company to finance the U.S. Navy," declares Glen McDaniel, chairman of Litton's executive...
...ships and equipment are changed sometimes hundreds of times, causing delays and costly modifications. Navy-supplied weaponry often arrives late, and payments frequently run behind schedule. The amount of paper work involved in shipbuilding is mountainous. Litton has assembled 1½ tons of documentation, made up largely of Navy design changes, to justify its claims...
...terminated this week a program to train 15 Taiwanese engineers in inertial navigation technology six months early because the technology could be used in the design and construction of military ballistic missiles...
...bush people speak a language that combines Dutch, English, French, Portuguese and six West African languages. Much of their design and decoration, including sculpture, chairs and dugouts hollowed from felled trees, resembles that of West Africa. In fact, two Gran Men who recently traveled to West Africa at the expense of the Surinam government were able to recognize certain shrines and could communicate with Africans though the two cultures have had no contact for centuries...
Instructive Figure. He studied landscape design and was a botanist. He was also one of the first foreigners to discern, as minister to France in the 1780s, the challenging merits of new artists like Jacques Louis David and Antonio Canova. "I do not feel an interest in any pencil but that of David," he wrote in a flush of enthusiasm. Jefferson became the first American to transcend the cultural provinciality of his own land, moving with some ease between the New World and the Old. Even if he had had no political life, he would on that ground alone have...