Word: motioning
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...contracts with Iran, among them an agreement to help construct Iran's first nuclear power plant at Bushehr. And energy-hungry China has not hesitated throughout the nuclear standoff to sign new oil and gas deals with Iran. Such economic realities have "more or less defined our range of motion" in imposing sanctions, concedes one former U.S. diplomat...
Like almost all extrasolar planets, the new world is too small and distant to be spotted by telescope. Instead, it was discovered by measuring the tiny wobbles its gravity imposes on the motion of its parent star...
...beginning, at about the turn of the last century, what management consultants offered was much clearer. It was called Taylorism, after its inventor, Frederick Winslow Taylor. Taylor called it scientific management, and it involved slicing up industrial processes into bite-size tasks and then doing detailed time-and-motion studies to determine the most efficient way to perform them. Described in hindsight as "the first big management fad," Taylorism was widely criticized--from the right as a step toward totalitarianism, from the left as soulless and alienating. It was famously parodied by Charlie Chaplin and Lucille Ball (remember Lucy...
...potential uses of DeepStream's technology are endless. The company envisions sensors that detect wasted motor motion, power surges, electrical loss, overheating and unnecessary lighting--leading to vast improvements in efficiency, perhaps saving half a billion tons of carbon emissions in Britain alone each year. "Energy sensors are going to be a massive part of our future," says Crosier. Perhaps Eaton would like to buy some...
Professors had little enthusiasm for a colleague’s politically charged proposal to reaffirm their commitment to free speech at yesterday’s meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. The motion, by anthropology professor J. Lorand Matory ’82, was a one-sentence affirmation of “civil dialogue” that did not mention Israel, but Matory said it was a direct response to debates at Harvard over Israeli policy toward Palestinians. He has claimed that critics of Israel, like himself, “tremble in fear” of repercussions...