Word: design
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...amount is barely enough to pay for a stripped-down two-door Chevette. The same Buick wagon would cost nearly $11,000. The Big Three have been forced to hike the price of their fuel-efficient models mostly to pay for the $80 billion that they are spending to design and produce them. But Detroit may have pushed prices up too far and too fast. Says Marvin Alpern, a New York City Chevrolet dealer: "People come in and look at the prices, and they are shocked...
Jose L. Sert, former dean of the Graduate School of Design and architect of the Science Center and Holyoke Center, last week won the 1981 Gold Medal of the American Institute of Architects...
...very excited for Sert," Gerald M. McCue, dean of the Graduate School of Design, said yesterday. McCue added that Sert's greatest accomplishment at Harvard was the creation of a degree program in urban design...
Outside the factory and the lab, the work that needs to be done in this world is almost without limits, and so is the robot's potential ability to do it. In the field of farming and food processing, for example, Unimation has been asked to design a robot that can pluck chickens. Australian technicians are already testing robots to shear sheep. One machine first stuns the animal with an electric shock, then closes in with its shears. Clipping the back and sides is not too hard, but the technicians still report "significant difficulties" in finishing up the neck...
...world, and its repercussions are still being felt. Some mention of contemporary endeavors would have rendered the material in the ICA show more conspicuously relevant to the present. Without such allusions, the apt timing of the exhibit looks like just a fortunate accident, an artistic coincidence--not a conscious design. More than simply betraying the spirit of Dada in straitjacketing its works, the ICA's presentation is a model of how museums function more as mausoleums than as regenerative forces that revive the art of the past to engage contemporary audiences...