technical retooling
1Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
2performing arts — arts or skills that require public performance, as acting, singing, or dancing. [1945 50] * * * ▪ 2009 Introduction Music Classical. The last vestiges of the Cold War seemed to thaw for a moment on Feb. 26, 2008, when the unfamiliar strains …
3Ice Skating — ▪ 2009 Introduction Figure Skating. Canada came away as the biggest winner at the 2008 International Skating Union (ISU) world figure skating championships, held in March in Göteborg, Swed., by capturing a gold, a silver, and a bronze… …
4Software prototyping — Software prototyping, a possible activity during software development, is the creation of prototypes, i.e., incomplete versions of the software program being developed.A prototype typically simulates only a few aspects of the features of the… …
5Chevrolet Volt — Manufacturer Chevrolet division of General Motors Also called Holden Volt Opel Ampera Vauxhall Ampera …
6Assault rifle — An assault rifle is a selective fire rifle or carbine (not to be confused with a semi automatic only replica) firing ammunition with muzzle energies intermediate between those typical of pistol and high powered rifle ammunition. Assault rifles… …
7drafting — /draf ting, drahf /, n. See mechanical drawing. [1875 80; DRAFT + ING1] * * * Precise graphical representation of a structure, machine, or its component parts that communicates the intent of a technical design to the fabricator (or the… …
8Travelling salesman problem — The travelling salesman problem (TSP) is an NP hard problem in combinatorial optimization studied in operations research and theoretical computer science. Given a list of cities and their pairwise distances, the task is to find a shortest… …
9Vannevar Bush — Infobox Scientist name = Vannevar Bush box width = image width = caption = Vannevar Bush, ca. 1940 44 birth date = birth date|1890|3|11 birth place = flagicon|USA Everett, Massachusetts death date = death date and age|1974|6|30|1890|3|11 death… …
10Rapunzel (film) — Infobox Film name= Rapunzel caption= Rapunzel logo director=Byron Howard Nathan Greno [http://www.aintitcool.com/node/38686 Ain t It Cool News: Glen Keane leaving Disney s RAPUNZEL. Who s stepping up? Oct 10, 2008] ] producer=Roy Conlicite web |… …
