Word: designators
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Grosz's appointment is the first of several major appointments for Faust. Faust must still name leaders for the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Harvard Medical School, and the Graduate School of Design...
...Kisho Kurokawa, the innovative Japanese architect who designed Kuala Lumpur's terminal with flowing buttresses reminiscent of desert tents, points out that Arabic sources of design harmony were more important to him than Asian ones. While Singapore's top-rated Changi Airport is praised by Malaysian feng shui guru Joey Yap for entry roads and fronting lawns that properly gather up pools of surrounding qi, the Civil Aviation Authority of Singapore states categorically that it "does not take feng shui into account" in airport designs...
...Getting new fashions into stores even faster than before also became a central part of Topshop's revival. While traditional clothing retailers might take six weeks to get a design to sales floors, Topshop's trucks are delivering new duds to its outlets usually just two weeks after suppliers have received the order. The result: Topshop debuts hundreds of new pieces in its London flagship outlet every week. And if the emphasis on speed and stylishness means Topshop's togs are a bit more expensive, then so be it. That's a premium the chain's customers have come...
...protest that he liked his middle name better - was the baby of the family, whose arrival six years after his three siblings' is remembered as a shock and a miracle. When Mitt was 7, George took over a failing car company called American Motors and introduced a radical design concept in the era of soaring tail fins and acres of chrome: something he called the "compact car," a sedan built on a smaller frame to be cheaper...
...economy has moved very significantly over the last few years so that perhaps 8 percent of our economy is the range of creative industries from design, architecture right across to media, information technology. We're in many areas the leading center for financial services. In the range of industries and services which are absolutely crucial to the success of advanced industrial economies in the future, Britain is doing well. Our big issue is making ourselves world-class in education. If China and India are turning out 4 million graduates a year and we're turning...