Word: precisionism
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For managers, the computer in 1961 has become something much more than a way to mechanize paperwork. It has begun to solve management problems-to make economic forecasts, plan price strategies, direct production, chart distribution, analyze sales. By supplying management with information that was unavailable a few years ago. it...
The New Leanness. The new, precision-tool sharpness of U.S. business shaped 1961's recession and recovery. Here the computer played two key roles: 1) it made possible more accurate and rapid forecasting of the economy's swings, and 2) it permitted businessmen to adjust their inventories more...
But unlike Mozart, Stravinsky's setting of three Latin psalms is angular, harsh and massive. The chorus is made to sing heavy, declarative lines, which must, for a performance to succeed, be delineated and articulated with considerable precision. And last night under Mr. Senturia's direction, the Glee Club and...
Other physicists have toyed with the same notion, but Ward describes an actual experiment to test this theory. The Mössbauer Effect, discovery of which won German Physicist Rudolph Mössbauer a Nobel Prize (TIME, Nov. 10), allows gamma rays from certain radioactive isotopes to be used for...
Now cosmologies have, by definition, their own sets of laws, and if one is to play the game of those who invent them on their own terms, one must be certain of exactly what these laws are. Here lies Wolfson's most irritating weakness, for he leaves his audience wondering...