Word: designer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...congressional critics, Weinberger and the Pentagon are simply intent on buying every weapon the generals and admirals put on their wish lists, without any overall strategic design or much attempt to weed out those systems that prove ineffective or excessively costly. In a study submitted to Republican congressional leaders last week, a group of G.O.P. lawmakers led by Senators Charles Grassley of Iowa and Nancy Kassebaum of Kansas contended in effect that much of the roughly $1 trillion spent on defense in the past four years had disappeared into what Grassley called a "bottomless pit" of Pentagon waste...
...Atlanta companies joined forces in 1974 after Scientific Games developed the idea for instant-win lotteries. The concept was based on promotional contests that Scientific, then barely a year old, had been selling to businesses. Scientific now acts as the sales agent for the games, performing all marketing, design and administrative work, while Dittler is the printer...
...Started by An Wang of Wang Laboratories, Inc., the hugely successful computer company in nearby Lowell, the institute aims to educate a new breed of executive scientist who can create models of order in the individualistic and chaotic computer-software field. Wang believes that its integrated regimen of planning, design and testing of new systems, guided by written instructions, can be an answer. Set up in a former Marist Brothers seminary, the institute is an independent nonprofit school. Only ten of its 50 master's candidates come from Wang Labs; the others come from the likes of AT&T, Digital...
...face of this nation is decisively shaped by the Federal Government. It is the country's largest single builder, printer and design client for objects as various as power dams, monuments and postage stamps. The looks and liveliness of Government buildings often determine the vitality of town squares and city centers. Federal highways and public works enhance or mar the American landscape. The appearance of Government signs, pamphlets and questionnaires can make life easy or irritating for citizens...
...although poorly designed public buildings, spaghetti-like freeway intersections and confusing graphic gobbledygook are wasteful and ugly, little attention has been paid to the problem. Says Architect Bill N. Lacy, president of the Cooper Union art, architecture and engineering school in New York City: "The U.S. is a Fourth World country when it comes to design awareness...