Word: fashioned
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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RECENT INNOVATIONS in the field of medicine have shaken up the medical hierachy in an unprecedented fashion. Little-known hospitals and doctors have managed to perform two of the most controversial and difficult operations without publishing their techniques for medical scruitiny and with a seemingly total disregard for the future of public health...
...second objection, voiced by one student member of the Committee on Undergraduate Education, over what he would fashion an increase in subjectivity in the Guide, is not well taken. The trend, over a number of years, to include more open questions and decrease the number of "rate the reading teacher labs from 1 to 7" represents an attempt to frame statistics in their proper context. To simply include more statistics, as Dowling suggests, would rip ratings from their mornings...
...Washington and New York City. On a résumé that he assembled earlier this year when he ran for the management board of his ritzy Manhattan apartment building, Koecher described himself as "a consultant on national security matters." That was true too, after a fashion. According to federal authorities, Koecher did have one client, to whom he told everything he knew about U.S. national security: the Czechoslovak intelligence service. Koecher, 50, a naturalized U.S. citizen, was charged last week with spying for his native Czechoslovakia...
Before the Karmarkar method, linear equations could be solved only in a cumbersome fashion, ironically known as the simplex method, devised by Mathematician George Dantzig in 1947. Problems are conceived of as giant geodesic domes with thousands of sides. Each corner of a facet on the dome represents a possible solution to the equation. Using the simplex method, the computer scours the surface of the dome millions of times to pinpoint the corner with the most likely solution. But the method is slow, and it works only when there are merely a few thousand variables to sort through. Says Karmarkar...
...surprisingly, playful frames are most often found around the work of newer artists, the ones most likely to resist received tradition (and to follow fashion). A deliberately cartoonish image by Kenny Scharf sports edges decked with plastic dinosaurs and rockets. Larger-than-life wooden silhouettes - two birds, for instance, or a garland of branches - shoot up around the landscapes of Alan Herman. More established figures are also working in the same vein. Howard Hodgkin, whose canny strokes of pigment hint at enclosed views, sweeps paint across the frame to twit its pretensions as the final proscenium...