Word: designated
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some of the space problems result from the unique century-old architecture of the building. Some of it was by design...
...equipment and seasoned divers struggled to answer what were, initially, unanswerable questions. The Deep Drone, an underwater robot outfitted with sonar and cameras, located the crucial black boxes--the flight-data recorder and cockpit-voice recorders--within days. The flight-data recorder from the 767-300 is a new design that stores 55 measurements of the plane's movements and control inputs--as much as five times more than previous models--that should help investigators piece together what went wrong...
...Perhaps I am simply being drawn in by the Apple propaganda machine. When Jonathan Ive, head of Apple's design team, states his motto--"Sorry, no beige"--he sounds an awful lot like the giddy materialist, marketing style rather than substance. The goal here, after all, is to sell computers. But when Ive says, "We didn't start with engineering dictates. We actually started with people," his statement has more meaning than the typical car commercial. Computers live in our offices and our homes, and everywhere their gray sharp-edged packaging advertises their status as the "other." But computers...
...still may argue that computers are not the kind of thing we should buy based on how much we like to touch their cases or admire their colorful design. I would probably agree. But adding a little color to our lives, wherever we can find it, adds another little bit of humanity and happiness. And given the amount of time I spend staring at my computer screen (and its beige box) anyway, it would be nice if it felt like a more touchable, more animated friend...
Besides providing loans and grants, the initiative provides for an advisory committee composed of faculty from many of the University's schools including the KSG, the Business School, the Law School and the Design School...