Word: designer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...educator I think that it's a very good design for undergraduate education for it to build to a culmination of some sort," he said...
...line of Ready consumer PCs ($1,999 to $2,999, plus monitor), making its debut in August, breaks from the gray-box approach to PC design by placing the CD-ROM and floppy drives in a shoe box-size module that sits next to the monitor, making for a much simpler look. A special display gives regular news updates throughout the day. And this week the company is initiating a build-to-order program aimed squarely at rivals such as Gateway. The approach may help the firm grab that market share it so badly covets...
...should anyone care? In fact, there are plenty of reasons, starting with the creature's pure elegance of design. Sharks first appeared on earth 400 million years ago, and after about 200 million years of evolutionary trial and error, nature pretty much ran out of ways to improve on its handiwork. Today more than 350 species swim the planet, ranging in size from the less-than-1-ft.-long dwarf shark and pygmy ribbontail catfish shark to the 50-ft. whale shark. Sharks have insinuated themselves into every marine environment from the Arctic to the tropics. One species, the bull...
...book is sub-titled "A Drama of the American Workplace," but there is little that is dramatic in her story--it is entirely devoid of romance, palace intrigue, melancholy, blood or tears. The climactic moment in a given chapter might consist of a guy storming into the design center, screaming something about how "you guys" are making it impossible to fit in a solid chassis and then storming...
Unfortunately, the most interesting sections of the book--when Walton moves away from the minute intricacies of constructing the Taurus and focuses on the larger issues surrounding car building in America--are all too rare. Walton explains, in an enlightening digression, that the design of the "'96 Ford Taurus was unique in that the company set out to make a car in the Japanese mold--they aimed to spend more money and less time, and to create something which could rival the smooth precision of a Toyota-built automobile. In short, their mission statement was 'Beat Camry."' In another chapter...