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This practice, known as "gold-plating," not only is expensive but can result in a muscle-bound product too overburdened to accomplish what it was designed to do. The Navy's F-18 "Hornet" fighter-bomber, for example, was proposed as a small, low-cost aircraft to complement the $36 million F14. Congress bought the notion in 1975, after being told that each plane would eventually cost about $16 million. They are now priced at $32 million each. Much of the added cost and delay is due to improvements made in the Star Wars radar and guided missile control...
...great billowing garments of soft prints that try to exalt maternity by sentimentalizing it. The expectant mother, shrouded in a calf-tickling Laura Ashley fantasy, becomes a late-Victorian artifact, like a sprite from a Julia Margaret Cameron photograph. A woman who wanted a certain modernity of fashion to complement a contemporary pregnancy, who wanted to be comfortable with her appearance and her condition, pretty much had to improvise, scrounge or raid her husband's wardrobe...
Instead of playing any direct advocacy role on women's studies for Radcliffe undergraduates. Cox says they "do what we can to complement students studies." In particular, Cox points to the resources of the Schlesinger library, the Mary Perkins Gillman lecture series, and the Mellon Fellowships, which allow scholars to study academic concerns of particular interest to women. "We are shaping the course of women's studies for years to come," she says. "That to me is as important as helping a sophomore get her study card signed...
Ross and Doyle complement each other well, and their acquisition gives Palm more flexibility in positioning players. Last year, Palm had to move Trumbull and Rohan around depending on the game situation. This year, positioning should become more stable because of the spikers' multiple talents...
...Purlie, Leverett House and Black CAST's current offering, offers just such an enigma. This rambunctious musical comedy about race relations in the last-1950s South had a respectable Broadway run and has since bubbled cheerfully on numerous regional and school stages. Purlie's infectious and vigorous score, its complement of genuinely funny lines ("College ain't so much where you been as how you talk when you get back") and its unassailable but not over-bearing message of racial dignity and hope account for its remarkable drawing power...