Word: planner
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...meet with local residents to discuss potential traffic problems. Some councilors said they might vote to deny necessary curb cuts if some agreement could not be reached. "I'm not threatening you; I just want you to sit down and talk," councilor Saundra Graham told a Spaulding and Slye planner...
...causes of the catalogue boom are clear. Few things can delight shoppers weary of long lines, costly transportation and surly salespeople as much as thumbing through a richly illustrated booklet amid the comforts of home. Carol Lefcourt, a financial planner who heads a company in Palo Alto, Calif., likes to soak in a warm bubble bath while catalogue shopping. She says that she has not stepped inside a department store in 15 years...
...then, here's the connection to Pasadena's California Institute of Technology and Jet Propulsion Laboratory, where the planner's paradigm, the probability theory, took root...
There was Ragen, the psychotic and angry rapist; Arthur, a rational and emotionless Englishman (replete with accent): Allen, the con man; Danny, the frightened adolescent; Adalana, the introverted lesbian (three of his personalities were female); Philip, the thug; Kevin, the planner; Walter, the Australian big-game hunter; Lee, the comedian; Bobby, the daydreamer; and some 14 others. By securing the confidence of Milligan's main incarnation, Billy, the doctors elicited from the defendant information about each of his personalities...
...taken to placate motorists. Woonerf designers oppose the American torture of bumps and humps to slow down autos, relying instead on an environment in which the driver feels like a privileged guest who must mind his manners. "We don't want to irritate people in cars," says Planner De Jong...