Word: projecting
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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While acknowledging a mutual concern among all institutions in the country for the public health, safety, and welfare, the Corporation's document noted that "the question is whether the actions proposed by the Project on Corporate Responsibility are the rightmethod to achieve this agreed-upon objective...
...State of Georgia bought the rock, and in 1963 a new sculptor, Walter Hancock of Massachusetts, was hired. Plans for the project had shrunk by then to a mere three figures on horseback. Lee, Stonewall Jackson and Jefferson Davis, their two-foot stone eyeballs popping and their megalithic hats held reverently over their huge hearts, rode across the cliff face on horses that seemed to have been resurrected from a dim memory of the Parthenon frieze by the resident soapcutter of Forest Lawn...
...Lockheed sees it, the fault lies not in its own performance but in a system of Pentagon contracting called Total Package Procurement, or TPP, instituted under former Defense Secretary Robert McNamara. TPP was designed to end overrun claims by setting a strict ceiling on the final cost of any project. It penalized contractors who exceeded the ceilings but held out the reward of higher profits to those who reduced production costs. As Lockheed's costs overran the total package price, wrote Chairman Haughton in the company's annual report, "the gold of good intention turned into the sand...
...years rumor has had it that all Universal Pictures films are made by a giant computer. If so. The Forbin Project is the machine's apologia pro vita sua, a razzle-dazzle science fiction yarn about a computer takeover. It was made -at least according to the screen credits -by humans, but the film's rigorous plotting, its smooth suspense and meticulously calculated style seem strictly and triumphantly machine-made...
...Labs. When an organic phosphate insecticide was sprayed in the Laboratory's greenhouse last year, it drified into a ventilation fan and wiped out a colony of silk moths in another room. Ironically, these moths were part of a study on moth development and hormones-a project that may lead to a safer class of insecticides...