Word: redesign
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sees his short-term priorities as fixing the shuttle ("Ironically, that's the easiest part," he said), improving NASA's management practices, and then rejuggling a backlog of shuttle payloads. He intends to set up a panel of experts from the National Academy of Sciences to oversee the shuttle redesign, and has already appointed other outsiders to review the agency's management. On his return to his old post, he says, he was surprised to discover that top officials "didn't seem to be talking to each other." He intends to "get to the bottom" of the communications problem...
...expanding prong into the satellite's rear motor, locking on to it and providing a grip for the wrangler-astronauts. As Allen explained, "It's like opening an umbrella inside a chimney." In practice sessions Allen could not reach the handle to "open" the umbrella. Another redesign was needed. It was now August...
...most striking design shifts in modern automotive history, Ford Motor two years ago traded in its boxy styling for the rounded forms of its current new cars. The sleek redesign has been a hit in the showroom, and last week Ford named Donald Petersen, 58, who championed the new shapes, to succeed the retiring Philip Caldwell as chairman next Feb. 1. Executive Vice President Harold Poling, 59, will replace Petersen as president...
...searching mini-industry is so busy that it supports various suppliers and tinkerers who refine and redesign electronic devices and other equipment to meet the special challenges of salvaging...
That new image is a result of the vitality that is reinvigorating one of America's most famous companies after a period of drift and uncertainty. Last month Sears changed its logo to something resembling slanted racing stripes, only the second redesign in its history and the first in 21 years. In addition to the Tiegs cover, the "catalog of the future," as Sears now calls it, contains twelve pages of Tiegs in color and, in one 24-page section, appeals to the upwardly mobile young woman of the '80s with sexy models sporting slightly punk hairdos...