Word: designer
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...purchase gives GM direct access to some of the most advanced technology in American industry. Smith, who interrupted a European trip to return to the U.S. after his company was named the winning bidder, said GM will use Hughes' capabilities to help design and build cars. Added Smith at a news conference: "Electronics, we believe, is going to be the key to the 21st century." Products manufactured by Hughes, which no longer makes aircraft, range from microchips and lasers to communications satellites and air-to-air missiles. The California company is the largest supplier of electronic equipment to the military...
...produced; each piece of tubing must be heated and then bent by hand. There are only a few hundred neon artisans left in the country, and their average age is 50. Now, however, a dozen schools have opened to train newcomers. Architects are turning to neon to ornament postmodern designs, especially by tracing structural shapes and highlighting details. Slender ribs of blue neon provide elegant illumination for the walkway of a building in New York City's financial district. Uptown, Steven Panzarino, a New York City architect, is using neon for elevator indicator lights, recessed into the walls...
...midweek, whether by accident or design, two rockets of unknown origin struck the presidential palace in Baabda, setting part of the building afire. Lebanese President Amin Gemayel emerged unhurt and soon afterward flew to Damascus for talks with Syrian President Hafez Assad. At Gemayel's urging, Assad agreed to try to stop the fighting in Beirut by sending Syrian troops back to those parts of Lebanon from which they were removed during the Israeli invasion...
...Stadium design has also been cited as a reason for the frequency of English soccer violence. Trouble at games often starts among the working-class youths who fill up the low-cost, standing-room areas known as terraces, similar to the areas occupied by the Liverpool and Juventus fans in the Brussels stadium. Sir Philip Goodhart, a Conservative Member of Parliament, believes that one reason there is less fan mayhem at sporting events in the U.S., a nation that many Britons regard as violence prone, is that its stadiums have fewer standing-room sections. Says Goodhart: "It is very difficult...
...clear. It would reverse a 20-year trend of tax cuts for business that has resulted in individuals shouldering a proportionally heavier load of the burden. The basic mechanism remains clear too: lowering rates but making more income taxable by scrapping or reducing exemptions and deductions. Within that grand design, though, there are hundreds of provisions varying widely in impact. Details: Individual rates. The move to a three-stage, 15%-25%-35% rate structure would by Administration calculations reduce taxes for 58.1% of all American families; 21.2% would see no change except in the way that they compute what they...