Word: rowse
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
None of this has kept Boeing from going full-throttle on its factory reforms. At the 747 factory, whose 98 acres of floor and 114 ft. of height make it the world's largest building by volume, manager Bill Yoakum went sleepless near Seattle while the plant phased in software...
Semi-circular rows of computers, electronic switchboards and unobtrusive decor make the Operations Control Center (OCC) for NASA's Advanced X-ray Astrophysics Facility (AXAF) look like a scaled-down version of the mission control rooms in movies.
He called it La Ville Radieuse, the Radiant City. Despite the poetic title, his urban vision was authoritarian, inflexible and simplistic. Wherever it was tried--in Chandigarh by Le Corbusier himself or in Brasilia by his followers--it failed. Standardization proved inhuman and disorienting. The open spaces were inhospitable; the...
While the money poured into Harvard's Commencement is visible in the manicured lawns, neat rows of chairs and vast tables of appetizers that are prepared for June 4, another facet of Commencement--that is, how much seniors must spend--is sometimes overlooked.
Godzilla is in the details. the Book tells us so. Among the commandments: Godzilla has three toes on each foot, not four; Godzilla has four claws on each hand, not three; Godzilla has three rows of ridges on his back, not one; Godzilla eats fish, not people; Godzilla cannot be...