Word: designate
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...huddle, the Harvard coach called an inbounds pass play, but did not design a play to get someone free for a shot...
With 58% of the world market, Cray Research is indisputably the supercompany in the design and manufacture of supercomputers -- those ultrafast number crunchers that can do everything from designing jumbo jets to forecasting the < weather. But the company fell behind schedule last year in its drive to bring out a new generation of machines that would have eight central processors instead of four. In the meantime, Cray's main American supercomputer rival, ETA, this year unveiled machines with up to eight processors...
...Seaman, normally our man at the White House, will deploy a team that includes Senior Writer Tom Callahan, Correspondents Lee Griggs, Laura Lopez and Paul A. Witteman, and Reporter Ellie McGrath. In New York City, Reporter-Researcher Lawrence Mondi will coordinate the research, Assistant Art Director Arthur Hochstein will design the pages -- and Ferrer, of course, will be calling the plays, or the shots, or whatever the proper sports jargon is. And when he is rested from that Olympian effort, it's on to Seoul for the Summer Games...
...concept: a film cartridge containing a disc of 15 tiny frames. But after selling 25 million disc cameras since 1982, Kodak said last week that it has suspended production. While the company has promised to keep making film for the cameras, photo experts believe Kodak is ditching the disc design for good. Sales of the cameras, while brisk at first, slumped to fewer than 2 million last year. The disc's fatal flaw is its minuscule negatives, which tend to produce grainy snapshots. That handicap has become even more glaring with the arrival of simple and inexpensive 35-mm cameras...
...able to design things and try things and see if they would work, and it was a lot of fun," says Andrew P. Tobias '68, who was student president in his senior year. Tobias, who is now an author, was responsible for the initial success of the Let's Go travel guide series, which is designed for travelers with small budgets...