Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Second-and most sophisticated-product of Games Research is Diplomacy. Around a 1914 map of Europe, three to seven players representing different countries try to deal and double-deal their way to control of the Continent, using fleets, armies and entangling alliances. At the start of each game, players have half an hour for private diplomacy; thereafter each move is preceded by a 15-minute period of whispered negotiation...
...Office as to the numbers of worthy applicants that have been rejected; and in the purple prose which the administrative and medical staff writes for consumption by the gutter press and which follows the lead of the cigarette companies in seeking to identify success in love with the corporate product...
...when Pratt & Whitney engineers set out to develop the Centaur's engines, they boldly planned to turn that touchy temperament to their advantage. In the final product, frigid LH2 does two jobs as it courses toward ignition. First, it is pumped through an outer jacket where it cools the thrust chamber's fierce 6,000° heat, and in the process vaporizes itself for ultimate burning. But before it reaches the chamber, the gas is expanding fast enough to spin an auxiliary turbine, which pumps more fuel and oxidizer into the cooling jacket. Thus the LH2 practically lifts...
...legal purposes, and can claim modest progress. In 1954, a Washington, D.C., killer named Monte Durham was declared not guilty, not because he could not distinguish right from wrong, but on the larger ground that a criminal should not be held cul pable if "his unlawful act is the product of a mental disease or defect." The so-called Durham Rule, or something like it, has since entered the law of several states (Maine, Vermont and Illinois). By necessity, such progress takes place at a deliberate pace, as the law weighs the possibility that any change in the criminal insanity...
Nicolin sold off unprofitable operations, reorganized divisions along product lines, reduced costly inventories and held back on hirings in order to reduce the white-collar staff by 8.2%. Result: the parent company's profits nearly doubled in two years. While accomplishing this, Nicolin was also lent out temporarily by the Wallenbergs to become president of the sick Scandinavian Airlines System. Using the same management techniques that were working at ASEA, he almost immediately cut SAS's losses of $193,000 a day. After nine months at SAS, he returned to ASEA, leaving behind an airline so revitalized that...