Word: fasters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...boom while Martin, insulated by a hooded wet suit, tried to focus on it. When a wave swell, of which he in the ocean depths was unaware, caused his target to heave up out of camera range, he swam up after it, only to swim even faster the other way when the ponderous bell descended...
...Skinner, Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology, says the new series of programmed-instruction books he has developed will teach children how to write faster by giving them an "instant correction" as they learn. With present teaching methods, students must wait for a teacher's corrections to see where they have made mistakes. Skinner's invisible ink system will solve this problem by giving the student an "immediate report" on his progress, Skinner says...
Skinner says this "instant correction," along with the programming of the book that lets each student move at his own speed, will help grade-school children learn how to write "much faster" than they...
Public higher education also faces a financial squeeze, despite the vast sums of money poured into it by state legislatures. Enrollment, salaries and other costs are rising even faster than income. Most state schools have sharply raised tuition-S.U.N.Y...
From Home to Office. Working with such blue-chip clients as Alcoa, Dow Chemical, U.S. Steel and U.S. Gypsum, Tishman researchers have devised such cost savers as movable wall panels for faster changes in floor plans, noise-stifling floor-assembly systems, prefabrication techniques for kitchen-bathroom cores used in slum rehabilitation. Having built $630 million worth of structures across the U.S.-everything from a Philadelphia industrial park to Los Angeles' Sheraton Wilshire Motor Inn-the company also has accumulated a salable store of insight into construction intricacies. For a consulting fee equal to 1% of the total cost, says...