Word: redesignation
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Corvair's heavy tail and its unique rear suspension system, critics charged that its rear wheels sometimes "tucked under" on corners, causing an alarming tendency for the car to roll over. The car was also vulnerable to side winds that caused unexpected sashays on the road. A redesign of the rear axle and other modifications fixed those failings in 1964. More than 150 lawsuits were filed for more than $25 million in damages...
Finger Dexterity. By now, Tichauer is so accustomed to the uninformed mistakes of machinery makers that he can readily redesign almost any device used by modern man. He would, for example, move the control of an electric skillet farther away from the heat and replace the dial, which requires great finger dexterity, with something even an arthritic old lady could manage...
That human institutions require periodic redesign (if only because of their tendency to decay) is not a minor fact about them. How curious it is, then, that in all of history no people has seriously attempted to take into account the aging of institutions and to provide for their continuous renewal. Why shouldn't we be the first...
Perhaps the Faculty who signed this petition failed to realize the racist nature of "An End to Urban Violence." They should read the prospectus, which calls for course students to plan strategies for counter forces for use in Black communities in rebellion, to redesign "spatial relations" to make it harder to seek shelter and easier to move troops, to find a "critical mass" population density that might lead to violence, that sees "riots" as emotional outlets, and Black people as basically incapable of solving their own problems. And the results of these "intellectual investigations" were to be presented...
...learn the techniques and develop the equipment that will enable him to live and work for long periods under the sea, the project has been beset by delays. First there was a steel strike; then some of the steel that was delivered turned unexpectedly brittle at low temperatures. Redesign of the oxygen system was called for after the fatal Apollo fire, and that was followed by a series of seawater and helium leaks. At week's end no one would predict how long it will be until Sealab is again judged seaworthy...