Word: designs
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...billion in damage. Did the Teton rupture represent some weakness inherent in earth-fill dams? Probably not; in the past three decades there have been no significant problems with the other 250 such dams erected by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation. Was there some failing peculiar to the design or location of the Teton Dam? That seems more likely...
Undaunted, Emilio Ambasz, 33, curator of design at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art, decided two years ago that what New York and other cities needed was a totally new look in cabs. He secured grants from the Mobil Oil Corp. and the U.S. Department of Transportation, sought advice from New York's Taxi and Limousine Commission, and drew up a 160-page study on taxis and their ideal specifications. He then persuaded five manufacturers to submit fresh designs based on the study. This week, Ambasz's dream, "The Taxi Project: Realistic Solutions for Today," went...
...Resistance fighter, molecular biologist and, since 1971, director of the Pasteur Institute in Paris, he helped solve the riddle of how cells develop into unique structures like hair or the heart. In his bestselling 1970 book Chance and Necessity, he argued that there is neither god nor grand design in the universe: "Chance alone is at the source of all novelty, all creation". His critics found his philosophy chilling and pessimistic. But like his friend Albert Camus, he seemed to find a transcendent freedom in the lack of hope. "Man knows at last that he is alone in the universe...
...present scandal began with an exam that required juniors to design a voltage-regulator circuit. When an instructor began looking over the completed papers, he found a handwritten footnote on one that stated: "I have received assistance on this paper...
...years after it began, the complex case of Chester W. Hartman '57, one-time assistant professor of City Planning, 'continues to tarnish the lackluster reputation of the Graduate School of Design. While the school's faculty voted correctly last week to delay until next fall its ruling on Hartman's charges that he was not rehired in 1969 for personal and political reasons, every other development this semester suggests a desire to dispose of the affair quickly rather than to systematically confront the GSD's questionable past actions...