Word: arrays
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HARVARD offers a scattered array of courses in popular culture: two first-year seminars, a tutorial in Social Studies, a seminar in Women's Studies and a smattering of classes in the Anthropology, History and VES Departments...
Across the state, students have been rallying this fall, fists clenched defiantly in the air to show their opposition to the ballot initiative's sweeping tax cuts. Spurring them on has been an array of college administrators concerned that the cuts might cost them as much as 20 percent of their already shrunken annual budgets...
Harvard-Smithsonian's proposed six-telescope array would measure submillimeter wavelengths, light waves shorter than radiowaves and longer than infrared. The Center, a joint venture of the Harvard College Observatory and the Smithsonian Astrophysics Observatory, is deciding whether to place its telescopes at Mt. Graham or at the 13,000-foot Mauna Kea in Hawaii, says Irwin I. Shapiro, director of the Center and Paine professor of practical astronomy...
...ideal place for the submillimeter interferometer [the telescope array] is on a satellite in space, but that is too expensive," says Shapiro...
...people skills are not Saturn's only strong point. Since they were outfitting a plant from the ground up, Saturn's team members incorporated an array of new equipment and techniques. Their aim was to achieve what the M.I.T. study dubbed "lean production," the Japanese system that uses "half the human effort in the factory, half the manufacturing space, half the investment in tools, half the engineering hours to develop a new product." At Saturn, team members rejected the traditional U.S. form of assembly line, where workers do two things at once -- toil and shuffle -- as they struggle to keep...