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...Wear (Abbeville; 320 pages; $95) by Julie Schafler Dale is a stunning survey of a movement dedicated to clothes for art's sake. The designers of these garments (weavers, needleworkers and painters) sacrifice the practical for the spectacular. These robes of many colors shimmer with feathers, beads, buttons and metallic threads. An ordinary flight jacket, when encrusted with 25,000 brass safety pins, is transformed into glittering armor. Knitted into a wool jacket, along with abstract images of the sun and its rays, are words by Walt Whitman ("Give me the splendid, silent sun/With all his beamsfull?dazzling"). A book...
...Howitzer field gun, makes components for the cruise missile, and is the world's leading producer of industrial robots. In the past eight months, a lack of skilled labor has ballooned Condec's order backlog by 37% to $288 million. Says Condec Chairman Norman I. Schafler: "It has become virtually impossible to get any tool-and diemakers. Industry has consumed its pool of skills like a diminishing oil well...
...themselves in labor-cost savings in as little as two years. For some applications, it is more economical to rent. One Unimation rent-a-robot plan costs the user $2.70 per hour for the first 500 hours and $1.70 thereafter. Moreover, notes Company Vice Chairman Norman I. Schafler, the tireless robots "take no lunches or coffee breaks and do not care about working more than one shift...
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