Word: designer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...losing my top talent to competitors. Our dollhouse team moved on to bigger things: building real houses in the Sunbelt. The Gap poached hundreds of our point-of-sale reps, signing them to lucrative deals to man its cash registers. Nintendo wooed away our Year 2000 computer debuggers to design next-generation Diddy Kong. In today's tight labor market, such skills are tough to replace. I've located a few jobless elves in Asia, but we're far better off giving up a little on the bottom line to keep our people happy here...
...that is a tribute to the power of that great contemporary idea, "Stop making sense." Beneath the cocked hats of its undulating towers, the most delightful architectural mind of our time has been everywhere at work. Without stooping to the twee historical quotation of so much postmodern design, Gehry has repudiated Modernist sanctity, symmetry and right-angled geometries in his own fearless way, taking them apart and putting them back together with a rollicking, cockeyed brilliance. Then he dressed this curvaceous beauty in shimmering titanium that is both sexy and unmistakably elegant. (And talk about pounding swords into art galleries...
Chen said that if students used a "sound design" in creating the program, they would not have to write as much code as many of them...
...other hand, if a student started with a design that from the start wasn't very good, it would take a lot more code to implement it and they might have a lot more trouble getting it to work," he added...
...high-quality collectible porcelain doll bearing the likeness of the late Princess Diana. In your "Di-ploitation Watch" item [PEOPLE, Nov. 17], you falsely claimed, without ever seeing an actual doll, that we are marketing a "cheesy Franklin Mint knockoff." The fact is our collectible doll is an original design produced by renowned artisans using the highest-quality materials. We did not copy any product of the Franklin Mint, and, in fact, we advertised this doll weeks before that firm came out with its model. Our doll is sold with an unconditional money-back guarantee. MARC J. KAPLAN, President...