Only last week, for example, Boeing announced that it would make a new regional jet a move that seems designed to undermine Airbus's attempts to design an aircraft for the same market.

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In addition, the state put out a new highway-design manual intended to make towns more pedestrian-friendly, with narrower streets designed for slower driving speeds.

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The Beijing Design Forum brought those festival cities together to help form a new network of cities using design to make urban agglomerations more livable.

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The project team is combining new text analytics technology with a comprehensive design evaluation to make it intuitive and informative to use.

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But this scale-out architecture represents a new design center, and there is much work still left to harness this machine and make it usable for the enterprise.

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Each of the new models features a unique, innovative design and a range of improved imaging technologies that make is easier than ever to capture the decisive action in all types of shooting environments ranging from low-light to outdoor scenes, underwater adventures and everything in between.

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The new tablet PC features a sleek convertible design that can be used in three different modes to make computing more natural and intuitive.

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As organizations shift from neatly ordered hierarchies to chaotic, flattened "heterarchies, " where anyone can "friend the CEO, " a new generation of tools will be invented that will allow design and technology to enable leaders to make true connections among people and inspire change.

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