Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...school for the deaf an information session on the jobs that deaf workers can effectively perform drew representatives from 20 local companies. Some firms are looking overseas for aid. Last October Grumman, the Long Island, N.Y., aerospace company, hired 28 engineers from Britain for six months to help design U.S. military aircraft. Says Miriam Reid, a Grumman spokeswoman: "We did it as a last resort. There's always been a shortage of engineers, but it is becoming more acute...
Observers praise the financial management of James Pattison, president of the Expo 86 corporation, which has supervised development of the fair. Pattison has personally overseen thousands of details, approving every exhibit design and reviewing all cost estimates. One of his most impressive achievements: completing construction of the fair for $283 million, or $6 million under budget. Boasts Pattison, a 51-year-old entrepreneur who owns a Vancouver-based real estate, communications and financial services conglomerate, which had 1985 sales of $1 billion: "I'm not saying this is a no-risk proposition, but I think I can say that...
...report, commissioned by the MIT Committee to Design an Integrative Curriculum in the Liberal Arts, recommended the establishment of a College of the New Liberal Arts to "enable students to achieve a high degree of competence in both a science or engineering subject and one of the HASS (humanities, arts, or social science) subjects...
This is the reason Garlits, also known as Big Daddy, showed up recently at the National Hot Rod Association Gatornationals in Gainesville, Fla., in a new $100,000 dragster with no front tires at all. What he had instead, under an aerodynamic wraparound front end of his own design, was a couple of machine belts barely thick enough to keep the thing from running on its wheel rims...
...transmission troubles, concluded that drag racing would be safer, and also faster, if the engine were behind the driver rather than in front--a crazy idea that is now standard.) Post edits Technology and Culture and is also a curator at the Smithsonian Institution. The fine points of dragster design have moved him to write: "I have found no human artifact that pleases me more than an earthshaking, fire-breathing 'digger,' blown and on fuel . . ." What counts in drag racing, he says, is individual ingenuity. The people who have it aren't just hot rodders but a variety of that...