Word: fondnesses
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...illustration, Paulos offers the one about a fellow who goes to a computer dating service seeking a partner who is short, gregarious, formally attired and fond of water sports. "We are led by the joke so far along one meaning surface," says Paulos. "Then comes the punch line. . . the service provides the man with a penguin. We are suddenly jumped across an ambiguity in semantics, from one surface of meaning to another, in a way that can be represented by a mathematical catastrophe...
...story building owned by the Crocker National Bank in San Francisco. Although it was built in the 1920s, says Pereira, "it is always 100% occupied, and one of the principal reasons is that it has openable windows." He designed the Pacific Mutual building not only as a fond bow to the city's tradition, but also to cut energy use by 15% to 20%. And he estimates that the new building will cost no more, and offer tenants greater variety, than conventional offices. Besides sliding French windows, there will be balconies that provide shade, individually controlled lighting known in trade...
From the start she confounded her enemies, a group that included "some of the wisest old tortoises of Indian politics." Her lieutenants grew fond of saying, "India is Indira and Indira is India." It is clear that she came to believe it too. But as a dictator she was hopelessly flawed, a lonely woman who turned more and more to her own family, particularly her zealous younger son Sanjay. "She could not escape her Nehru heritage," writes Mehta, "including her Nehru conscience." Incredibly, she did not realize, or perhaps refused to believe, the extent to which the enforced sterilization campaign...
...assortment of weapons, including nuclear bombs-though the planes to be sold to the Saudis and the Israelis will not be equipped to carry these. Managing this arsenal, while also flying at speed and keeping track of other craft, can be a handful, which is why pilots are particularly fond of the Heads Up Display panel, or HUD. This is a device that projects all the computerized combat-and flight-performance data right onto the windshield in a green phosphorescence that stands out even in strong sunlight. Thus the pilot does not have to look down at his instruments...
...very top and bottom of the line, many brands are similar in quality; yet a special mystique makes it In to buy and use a certain one. Nowadays, from Mt. Fuji to Mt. Blanc-with many mts. in Colorado and Vermont in between-the fashionable ski is "Rossi," fond nickname for the product of Skis Rossignol, a company with headquarters in the French alpine town of Voiron. Rossignol, counting its Dynastar subsidiary, sells more than 16% of the world's skis-1.5 million of the 9 million pairs marketed last year. Before Rossignol's ascendancy, Japan held...