Word: designs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...products are to be grouped into "production associations" that are to function roughly like large, multidivision U.S. corporations; each will have its own board of directors and research and development facilities. According to plan, top executives of these corporations will get extensive authority to set profitable production schedules, to design products and to develop markets for them...
...actually proposed a detailed plan for union. Members soon began complaining about the prospect of superparishes that might gobble up individual congregations and pointing out the proposed church's top-heavy administrative structure. Last year United Church of Christ executives issued a report sharply criticizing the whole merger design, and Eugene Carson Blake's own United Presbyterians, in a surprise vote, pulled out of the talks altogether. Then, this month, delegates at a national COCU meeting in Memphis withdrew the merger plan entirely. As an alternative, they discussed a more low-key approach based on practical cooperation among...
...drug testing, for example, it is not ethical to design an experiment to answer the question: 'Is treatment of the disease with the new drug more effective than no treatment at all?' In answering such a question, the patients in the control group would literally have to receive 'no treatment' and that is completely unacceptable. Instead, if the patients in the control group are given the best possible current treatment of the disease, we may now ask an ethical question: 'Is treatment with the new drug more effective than the generally accepted treatment for this particular disease...
Indeed, most of the work shown remains incomprehensible unless understood as a solution to a problem given in the design studio. Yet a basic fault of the exhibition is that the explanations of most of the problems are couched in such artsy jargon that they are indecipherable. For example, pieces of cardboard tubing cut from a big, cylindrical roll and reassembled into different forms could perhaps be justified as a design experiment. But to state the problem as the "re-formation of a rigidly geometrical object into a unified structure, which visually interrelates all active elements," gives the cardboard forms...
With so little time remaining before the scheduled unveiling date of May 29, speedy coordination between the City and the Kennedy Corporation over the design is necessary. Without this planning, the Kennedy Library will be just a collection of fond trivia -- a valentine from Caroline, a coconut shell from PT 109, an ivory model boat from Nikita Khrushchev -- within a Harvard Square disrupted by tourists clicking their Instamatics...