Word: graphed
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SMALL IS BEAUTIFUL is a different kind of economics book. Its 300 pages contain not a single graph. Published three years ago in London, it is just now gaining recognition on this side of the Atlantic. Economists, foreign students from Southeast Asia and Africa, and readers of periodicals such as the Coevolution Quarterly have passed it from hand to hand. The book seems to enjoy a readership far in excess of the number of copies sold...
...Frontiers. The proof announced by Mathematicians Kenneth Appel and Wolfgang Haken in this month's math society Bulletin is no joke, however. They began by viewing the different possible maps that might be constructed in terms of simple and therefore mathematically manageable dots and lines. By this "graph" system, each country became a point; boundaries between countries became lines linking the dots. Painstakingly examining every imaginable map that could be fashioned out of these points and lines, Appel and Haken concluded that no matter how complex the map was, it had to contain at least...
...Harrisburg into a sort of "war room." One wall of the makeshift headquarters was covered with a map pierced with colored pins tracing the outbreak of Legionnaires' disease-red pins for deaths, yellow ones for reported illness. At several desks, shirtsleeved workers transferred information onto large sheets of graph paper. At others, workers telephoned the state's more than 300 hospitals, trying to determine the exact number of victims and the exact circumstances surrounding each case...
Fouraker drew a graph on the meeting room blackboard to show the increasing pay advantages Harvard graduates enjoy compared to graduates from other business schools...
...golden years of his half-century career have been the past decade, when he has designed all of Hal Prince's musicals from Cabaret to Pacific Overtures. To see his work is like seeing the graph of a sensitive mind in motion. His perception of Company: "Movement in New York is vertical, horizontal, angular, never casual. In Versailles, you bow; in New York, you dodge cabs. Finally, I conceived a set that was basically a gymnasium for acting...