Word: designer
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...music drama ought to be the focus of attention, there has always been a fascination with sets, props and costumes. At a conservative museum like the Met, which has not presented a world premiere since Marvin David Levy's Mourning Becomes Electra in 1967, creativity is necessarily channeled into design. More is more, and the flamboyant Zeffirelli is a perfect symbol of the times. His Turandot works, in part because the fantastic nature of the opera can accommodate his cinematic, cast-of-thousands treatment. But it is close...
TESTING. Regarding the problem of nuclear testing, I maintain that the combat capability of many new versions of nuclear weapons (of both the fission and fusion kind) can be reliably determined without conducting nuclear tests. A possible exception may be weapons based on new physical and design principles. But existing physical and design principles already are quite sufficient to manufacture nuclear weapons satisfying all military requirements. Testing is not required to develop new versions of weapons differing only in terms of dimensions, weight or other such parameters from those previously tested. Testing is currently not necessary to verify the reliability...
...small quantity of neutrons, which can be measured by a counter close to the charge to be tested. The fourth system -- thermonuclear -- does not require testing in the majority of cases, since its reliability may be established by analogy to previously tested charges based on the same physical and design principles. At the same time computer simulations of thermonuclear explosions are also quite helpful (calculations of explosive processes exhibiting spherical symmetry or symmetry of the axis of rotation are completely reliable; the reliability and accuracy of these calculations can be verified by comparing the computer simulation of actual test results...
...people rightly feel for military applications must not spill over to the peaceful use of nuclear energy. Mankind cannot do without nuclear power. We must find a solution to the safety problem that will rule out the possibility of another Chernobyl resulting from human error, failure to follow instructions, design defects or technical malfunctions...
Finally, at the head of the new family, is the Macintosh II, an extremely powerful personal computer/workstation that is similar to the IBM in its openly expandable design, but similar to the Macintosh in its primary operating system. The most exciting of the new features are the six expansion slots which will allow the Mac II to hook up with various peripherals such as full-page displays...