Word: designate
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...unusual degree of flexibility. Factory managers, while gearing output to the central plan, can innovate to improve their product and enhance its consumer appeal. They are even allowed, within discreet limits, to compete with one another on price and delivery dates. As an incentive for managers and employees to design, manufacture and market high-quality goods, the party's economic planners often use an old capitalistic ploy: material rewards in the form of bonuses and wage hikes...
...Glass," devoted to small, "personal" works by leading artists that range from Miroesque abstraction to ribald political satire. One offbeat work by Californian Richard Posner, 29, is called The Big Enchilada 1975; it depicts in allegorical terms the White House infighting over Watergate. A similar show at the Pacific Design Center in Los Angeles drew 2,000 people on weekends, while another recent exhibition in the Washington suburb of Reston was jammed during its six-week...
...fighter-bomber that the White House proposes to sell to Egypt is the current version of a design that is now 23 years old and has no advantages over the F-15s and F-16s except price (as little as $5 million). But the planes are already the work horses of the Royal Saudi Air Force and could be useful to Egypt at least for defensive purposes. Since they carry two 20mm electric machine guns and 7,000 Ibs. of bombs, they can also be used effectively to support ground troops. Egyptian pilots who trained in Soviet aircraft with Russian...
About 20 students and faculty members at the Graduate School of Design (GSD) have volunteered to help rebuild the eight Massachusetts communities declared disaster areas in the wake of this month's blizzard...
...student also benefits from helping the communities by gaining concrete field experience," Robin B. Judson, a design school student and a program volunteer, said yesterday...