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William Edwards Deming
William Edwards Deming , 1900-1993, American statistician and quality-control expert, b. Sioux City, Iowa. Deming used statistics to examine industrial production processes for flaws and believed that improving product quality depended on increased management-labor cooperation as well as improved... Read more |
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Hermann Rorschach
Hermann Rorschach Swiss psychiatrist Hermann Rorschach (1884-1922) was the developer of the inkblot personality test commonly known as the Rorschach test. The ten inkblot cards designed by Rorschach in the early twentieth century have continued to be used by mental health professionals as one of... Read more |
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ideal
ideal. A conception of something that is perfect, referring in the visual arts to works that attempt to reproduce the best of nature, but also to improve on it, eliminating the inevitable flaws of particular examples. The notion derives ultimately from Plato, according to whom all perceptible... Read more |
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Mercury Interactive Corp
Mercury Interactive Corporation 1325 Borregas Avenue, Building A Sunnyvale, California 94089 U.S.A. Telephone: (408) 822-5200 Toll Free: (800) 837-8911 Fax: (408) 822-5300 Web site: http://www.mercuryinteractive.com Public Company Incorporated: 1989 Employees: 2,100 Sales: $400.1... Read more |
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Stanley Kubrick
Stanley Kubrick , 1928-99, American film director, writer, and producer, b. New York City. His visually stunning, thematically daring, boldly idiosyncratic, and darkly compelling films generally portray a deeply flawed humanity. Kubrick made several documentary shorts in the 1950s, turning to film... Read more |
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Klaus Fuchs
Klaus Fuchs The German-born physicist Klaus Fuchs (1911-1988) was one of the Soviet Union's most effective spies operating in Britain and the United States in the critical period during and after World War II. Fuchs revealed the American designs for the atomic bomb to a Soviet spy shortly after... Read more |
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fluoroscope
fluoroscope , instrument consisting of an X-ray machine (see X ray ) and a fluorescent screen that may be used by physicians to view the internal organs of the body. During medical diagnosis the patient stands between the X-ray machine, or other radiation source, and the fluorescent screen.... Read more |
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Rachel Louise Carson
Rachel Louise Carson 1907-64, American writer and marine biologist, b. Springdale, Pa., M.A. Johns Hopkins, 1932. Her well-known books on sea life— Under the Sea Wind (1941), The Sea around Us (1951), and The Edge of the Sea (1954)—combine keen scientific observation with rich... Read more |
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George Chapman
George Chapman 1559?-1634, English dramatist, translator, and poet. He is as famous for his plays as for his poetic translations of Homer's Iliad (1612) and Odyssey (1614-15). Chapman was a classical scholar, and his work shows the influence of the Stoic philosophers, Epictetus and Seneca. In... Read more |
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gem
gem commonly, a mineral or organic substance, cut and polished and used as an ornament. Gems also are used as seals (items of assurance) and as talismans (good-luck charms). For birthstones, see month . Properties of Gems The qualities sought in gems are beauty, rarity, and durability. The beauty... Read more |
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SANTA CLARITA STUDY FINDS DUMP REPORT INADEQUATE
...resembles a Rorschach test in which each side sees what it wants, but critics of the landfill...problems. The critics, led by Santa...contrary to critics' claims. Now...the kind of flaws inevitable in...As ... |
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MOB SCENE.
...television's toughest critics acclaimed it as a classic...been a kind of cultural Rorschach test. Jonathan Mahler, in...lofty ideals and tragic flaws of any other." Others...Michael Imperioli) sees Martin Scorsese outside... |