Word: precisionism
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When Ronald Reagan had stumbled on to the end of his China press conference, a few experienced journalists gathered and wondered if they had witnessed the beginning of the end of his bid for the presidency. One such episode does not a campaign make or break; it is only a...
(6 of 10) welding torches with better-than-human precision. New Chrysler welding machines now carry out 98% of the 3,000 spot welds used for body assembly operations on K-cars. The GM robots that are under development will be capable of selecting parts from a bin, examining them...
Building on these facts, Krotkov has strained for verisimilitude. There are knowing touches of trivia: a mention of the poet's favorite felt slippers, the real names of his dogs. Bits of Pasternak's works and quotes from the Soviet campaign against him are cited with precision. Only...
Hold Out marks for Browne's style of definition a change that was prefigured by Running On Empty, or as in many ears fine-tuned to the "Old Jackson," the unveiling of the mass-marketable Browne stamped out by the starmaker machinery of the LA/Hollywood music industry. Either way, a...
Typical of the suddenly idle worker of 1980 is Wilson Painter Jr., 31, a Pennsylvania apprentice machinist who was let go by U.S. Steel in May. A big-boned man with the look of a football guard, Painter tries not to dwell on the future. Instead, he spends his empty...