Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal responsibility of the NSC staff is to coordinate the design and execution of U.S. foreign and defense policy. It referees among the powerful departments and agencies, when necessary playing the honest broker to ensure that issues are identified, options framed, arguments heard, decisions reached and tasks carried...
...TIME's design and format have steadily evolved to meet changing journalistic needs. New sections are created, obsolete ones dropped and innovations like the Notes pages added. In this issue, the Economy & Business section introduces a new format to be used occasionally, as the news dictates. Shorter than a full-scale cover treatment but longer and less bound by the week's events than a regular lead story, the Economy & Business Special Reports will treat large subjects with an introductory survey, followed by separate stories examining various themes. Explains Senior Editor Charles Alexander, who oversaw this week's Special Report...
...format required an innovative design. That was where Art Department Designer Johnny White and Picture Researcher Richard Boeth came in. For the past year the two have been working as a team to enliven the look of TIME's business coverage. "Business often has to revisit the same story, like the auto industry or the stock market," says White. "We have to discover new and dramatic ways to present stock images so that the reader will find them fresh." Adds Boeth: "Wherever possible, we try to get business leaders out from behind their desks and into a context that reflects...
...probably by a margin of $350 million or so. "Ford is the shining star of the automobile industry now," says Jack Kirnan, an expert on the field for the Kidder, Peabody investment firm. The popular Ford Taurus and Mercury Sable have emerged as the pace cars of U.S. automotive design, thanks to their distinctive curves. On the financial side, Ford has slashed its excess automaking capacity and boosted worker productivity...
...keeping with its desire for low overhead, Ford has become increasingly reliant on foreign partners and subsidiaries for supplies of everything from parts to design ideas. Ford encourages its allied companies to specialize, thus creating "centers of excellence" instead of duplicating the same skills in each location. For example, Ford has engaged Japan's Mazda to design the 1988 successor to the Mercury Lynx subcompact...