Word: tunneling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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DIED. Donald Douglas, 88, pioneering aircraft designer whose development in 1935 of the durable DC-3 opened up the era of mass commercial air travel; in Palm Springs, Calif. The Brooklyn-born, M.I.T.-educated engineer had already helped design the world's first wind tunnel when, at 28, he used $600 to start his own aircraft business in the back of a Los Angeles barbershop. Government orders for military planes quickly established the firm, but its DC (for Douglas Commercial) series truly made it fly. Douglas' masterpiece, the DC-3, was the first American plane to make...
Another member said that precedent should be broken, arguing it would represent "tunnel vision" on the part of the committee to refuse to help all outside organizations, even when they sponsor events that will benefit residents of Currier. Proponents of the funding said Black student groups had less access to alumni donations than other campus groups...
Aelion said he could not pinpoint the reason for Harvard's sluggishness, but added that many students have "a kind of 'tunnel vision'--college, grad school, job, with no interruptions...
...Wednesday, Iran's erratic parliament finally provided a public flash of decisive action that illuminated the long hostage tunnel. Now members of the Council of Guardians settled into their front-row, red leather seats to observe the historic four-hour debate. Ostensibly at issue was the outside arbitration bill, but the real quarrel was over whether to resolve finally the hostage problem...
...citizens, a voice grown stronger in the past several years as the ramifications of what science can achieve have become clearer and more frightening. Harvard's Daniel Bell has pointed out that most of America's early inventors-Eli Whitney, Edison, the Wright brothers- were tinkerers with tunnel vision. They could afford to be; life was not seen as a continuum in those days. Today's inventors must be true scientists, responsible to the public health as well as to the private muse. The country has grown wary of innovation, of simply doing things because they...