Word: modularity
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...buzz BILL HOWARD, PC Magazine: "IBM has added a lot of flexibility to the ThinkPad 760. It has the best pointing device, the screen is among the best for its size and vivid color, and there's a modular bay for putting in a CD-ROM drive, a floppy drive or a second floppy...
Once start-up costs were absorbed for remodeling school basements or buying modular units, the preschool and afterschool day care became mostly self-supporting: 85% of the $2 million program comes from parents' fees. "Schools should be a community hub," says fourth-grade teacher Darlene Shaw. In three decades at Sycamore Hills, she has witnessed profound change. "Out of my 23 students today, only one has a stay-at-home mom," she said. "Without consistent, quality day care, kids flounder. And for kids dealing with divorce and single-parent families, school is their stability when things are going crazy...
...report to the seminar center, a big white concrete-origami structure with skylights and indoor trees and maple floors and modular furniture in primary colors, and you sit in a circle of potato employees with loose-leaf notebooks on their laps (Tools for Transformation), listening to a young facilitator named Terri explain how TQO works. She is friendly in a robotic way, as if she had taken one of those personal-development courses where they train you to look the other person in the eye when you speak to him and always say his name...
McDougal was happy to get an infusion of cash, nearly all of which was used to pay down the outstanding principal of the Citizens Bank loan. Then, to replace the advance he'd made to finance the construction of the modular home, McDougal arranged for Hillary to borrow $30,000 from Madison Bank and take title to the property. The loan would be repaid, he assured her, using proceeds from the sale of the house. She agreed, and henceforth the modular home on Lot 13 became known as the Hillary house...
Titanic has much the same structure. Evoking the incredible fortitude of the musicians who kept playing until the ship sank, the hymn Autumn (which bears a striking resemblance to Amazing Grace) is repeated over and over while its aural environment gradually changes. Modular in construction, the work can be performed at varying lengths. "As you know, water is a highly efficient conductor of sound," explains Bryars. "Obviously, it was impossible for the band to keep playing under water, but theoretically the music has just kept on going, forever. That's the feeling I was after...