Word: designations
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very fragility of the site led the American Battle Monuments Commission to demand an unintrusive, topographically friendly design. And it got one: two arches of 25 columns each, facing each other like parentheses around the Rainbow Pool, with large earthen berms sloping to meet the ground behind...
Aware that the design required to accommodate the Rainbow Pool must necessarily betray the scale and grandeur of the war, the planners try to finesse the problem. They provide a large, covered exhibition area--suitable for exploring the larger historical, cultural and, of course, military story of the war--to accompany the memorial, housed partly underground beneath the massive earthen berms...
Torres allegedly stole items from the Loeb Library of the Graduate School of Design, Widener Library and the Fine Arts Library, Mederos told The Crimson in January...
...before the suicides were discovered, Holly Craig in Fayetteville, Tennessee, received the floppy discs--and a letter of instruction. "Well, it's difficult to know where to start since you know quite a bit about us," it began. Indeed she did. Having done business with Heaven's Gate Web-design team, Craig had met 15 members and considered herself a "good friend" of seven of them, eventually becoming manager of their home page. The letter asked her to contact eight disciples who had left the group, as well as another who was still actively involved. She managed to reach...
...Dave, whatever happened to gear ratios? This new GM-speak can strike outsiders as numbingly programmatic. At GM's technical and design center in Warren, Michigan, for example, the walls are a marketspeak mural of arrows, block charts, one-word product descriptions and macro boxes of jargon like "needs target," "needs profile," "benefit focus" and "reason for being." Go inside GM's design studios, and its artists work under Brave New World banners exhorting them to remember what their 2000-era cars and trucks are supposed to represent. Flying above one such future vehicle...