Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Weld North entry-design and construction- 1971 winner, Mather House entry, designed, constructed & Captained- 1972 winner...
...Soviets, through their advisers in Syria, may well have known about the Arabs' design for war. In the spirit of detente, should not Russia have alerted the U.S. about a crisis that could conceivably lead to global war? Again Kissinger publicly forgave the Russians, suggesting that this sort of big-power cooperation was too much to expect during the fragile infant stages of détente...
Nevertheless, it was from this hedonistic compost that the splendors of "late" Japanese culture grew: Kabuki (theater), Bunraku (puppetry) and Ukiyo-e, which, in the hands of its masters, achieved a finesse of technique and design that, as outright decoration, was virtually unrivaled in Japanese history...
...disassembly line and torn into as many as 15,000 pieces that are hung on huge pegboards. Engineers study every part and piece to determine if it is somehow superior to their own company's product. They also analyze how much it would cost to imitate the design in their own plants...
...result, manufacturing secrets rarely keep for long in Detroit. A few years ago, for example, Ford men concluded that a competitor was building a superior master brake cylinder. They designed a similar one, but modified it to use two bolts instead of four. Sure enough, two years later they found their two-bolt design appearing in the brake cylinders of the competitors' cars that they dismantled. At present, auto engineers are focusing particular attention on how rivals go about reducing the weight of their cars in order to placate a public increasingly concerned by the cost of gas guzzlers...