Word: project
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...face-scrunching agony. Ideas -- rare occurrences -- render his countenance beatifically beamish. But since life is mostly utterly unpredictable to him, he is atwitch with dangerously unmediated impulses. Williams is his opposite, a man racing to keep up with a runaway brain, yet striving, hopelessly, to project an air of normality...
...Martre estimates that the program would spend $10 billion to get production rolling. But European aerospace officials with memories of the horrendous cost overruns incurred by the first Concorde program fear the figure could end up much higher, raising doubts about the plane's commercial viability. A new Concorde project might be unable to turn a profit without government subsidies, which are unlikely to be forthcoming this time around...
...arise if the U.S. aerospace industry enters the race. Last week Martre warned that the market for such a plane was too small to justify two competing models, and indicated that the Europeans were prepared to involve planemakers from the U.S. and elsewhere, including the Soviet Union, in their project...
...headiest, the aim of 20th century politics was the transformation of man and society by means of power. This great project -- politics as redemption -- has ended in failure on a breathtaking scale: not just economic and political but also ecological, spiritual and, not surprising for an enterprise of such overweening hubris, moral. The deeper meaning of the overthrow of communism is the realization that man can shape neither history nor society by Five-Year Plans, and that attempts to contradict this truth must end in the grotesque. The revulsion with politics reflects the view that when politicians go about tinkering...
...largest study is the Shanghai Sex Sociological Research Center's National Sex Civilization Survey. Using 500 volunteer social workers, the center obtained responses from 23,000 people in 15 provinces to a 240-question survey. The project is the Chinese equivalent of Alfred Kinsey's landmark studies of sexual behavior in the U.S. Liu Dalin, the study's director and China's best-known sexologist, agreed to discuss his findings with TIME before they are published. Results from a smaller survey of 1,279 men and women in 41 cities, conducted by sociologist Pan Suiming of the People's University...