Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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OFFICES AND BUSINESSES. New York Architect Richard Stein reckons that there are plenty of ways to cut energy costs in office buildings, starting with lighting standards. These are set to meet unnecessarily high requirements, he says, and waste electricity. Stein also would avoid designing buildings with sealed, all-glass facades (he advocates windows that open). Such little design changes, he estimates, could reduce air-conditioning needs by 20%. Others suggest staggered work shifts, some at night or even on weekends, to ease peak daytime loads on power plants...
...McDonnell Douglas' DC-10 and Lockheed's L-1011-are selling so fast that they are providing airlines with more seats than can be filled. Thus the U.S. companies see no market for new planes any time soon, and they have not pushed development of the advanced designs that they do have. Boeing and McDonnell Douglas are participating in STOL development with foreign partners, and McDonnell Douglas has undertaken advance planning on an airbus that could be built from its DC-10 design, but it has held up on production. Says Vice President Jackson McGowen: "No American company...
...early as 1976 and, if U.S. airlines go abroad to buy their twin-engine wide-bodies, STOLs and supersonics, could grow to an unfavorable total of $4.5 billion annually by 1985." Whether the U.S. does buy foreign planes depends, of course, on whether they live up to their design promise-something they have often failed...
...providing of "some item of value," since "an agent will not be taken into the confidence of the illegal entrepreneurs unless he has something of value to offer them." Treading a delicate line, Rehnquist ruled that "it is only when the Government's deception actually implants the criminal design in the mind of the defendant" that the official conduct becomes unacceptable. Potter Stewart, William Brennan, William Douglas and Thurgood Marshall constituted a dismayed minority. As Stewart said: "The purpose of the entrapment defense cannot be to protect persons who are 'otherwise innocent.' Rather, it must...
...first craft to cross the finish line was a sleek double kayak from Dunster House. Its speed, accomplished by a mundane design, precluded the entry from winning any appearance awards...