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Late and Broke. The development problems quickly escalated beyond Rolls' calculations. To keep the engine's weight down. Rolls engineers planned to make the RB-211's fan blades out of lightweight carbon fibers. But the fibers could not stand the crunch when hail or birds were sucked into the 7-ft. fans. Last April, Rolls managers decided to keep working on the fibers but to forge the fan blades for the first few engines from titanium; this meant that they had two expensive development programs going. As time to deliver the engines ran short, Rolls started...
Group art, especially the work of primitive societies, assumes the character of communal art, a sharing of human existences. Individual art, like the works of Florence at its haughtiest, can hail the piece of work that is a man or, in less boastful moments can dramatize to beings of a fragmented century the brutal and atavistic parts of our existence, witness "Guernica...
...Constructivism. If the tectonic unites the ideological and formal, and as a result gives a unity of conception, and the factura is the condition of the material, then the construction discovers the actual process of putting together . . . the formation of conception through the use of worked material. All hail to the Communist expression of material building!" (from Constructivism by Alexci Gan, the first important publication of the Constructivist group's ideology...
...flaunted his strategy time and again: under the guise of Vietnamization, he will sanitize the war by withdrawing American troops and reducing American casualties, while turning the people of Indochina-all of them-into cannon fodder, forcing them to hunt and kill each other beneath a hail of American bombs...
...poor and should also be seen to be poor," said Pope Paul in a speech last June, but his managers concede no contradiction in the fact that the Holy See needs more money. As one Vatican financier told Journalist Home: "You can't run the church on Hail Marys...