Word: modularity
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Japanese food, the most refined if not the most varied in Japanese food, the most refined if not the most varied in the world, is wholly a product of instinctive modular thinking. The intrepid traveler may find himself at 5 a.m., at the end or the beginning of his day, in a sushi restaurant near the prodigious fish market at Tsukiji in Tokyo, where nearly all the protein for 11 million people arrives fresh before dawn and is gone by 9 a.m. He will breakfast on fatty raw tuna belly, live tiger shrimp, abalone rectums and, if he is lucky...
...days on units already installed, the hapless subscriber has little choice but to unplug the device and take it to his local telephone company office for servicing. If the telephone is one of the Bell System's early models that does not disconnect from the wall with a modular plug, the customer may have to pay an additional steep charge to have a repairman come out to his house, a good reason to make sure that the phone one buys can actually be unplugged...
...shirts and wide ties, toting clipboards and pocket calculators, the Bechtel brigade seems the very can-do embodiment of American technological know-how. Its members also occasionally demonstrate a flair for improvisation that would do a World War II Navy Seabee proud. Earlier this year, 250 newly assembled Jubail modular housing units stood empty in the desert because some necessary plumbing fittings were missing. Two Bechtel employees promptly boarded a plane, flew 13,000 miles round trip to the U.S. and back and returned carrying several containers of faucets, nuts and washers as excess baggage...
Because of Jubail's extreme remoteness, nearly all manufactured goods are being shipped to the building sites already partially assembled. In the process, the city is becoming a genuinely modular community, a gigantic expanse of clip-together factories and buildings. The 205-bed Al Huwaylat Hospital, provided by the H.B. Zachry Co. of San Antonio, is arriving at the site virtually in kit form and being assembled room by room, each module having been delivered complete, down to the toilet-paper holders in the bathrooms. Even the hospital's prayer room, which has mosque carpets and lighting directed...
Gorenstein says that planned experiments in Japan and West Germany in the area of x-ray astronomy will occur several years before his project, known as the Large Area Modular Array of Reflectors (LAMAR...