The task of assessing American design's place in the world, and in everyday life, went more or less by default to the Cooper-Hewitt museum, a branch of the Smithsonian Institution, located in what had been Andrew Carnegie's mansion on Fifth Avenue.

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And as only Muslims are permitted to enter Islam's holiest city, were he to win the commission, Lord Foster would have the tricky task of seeing through his design from a distance.

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Sir Christopher said it was the committee's task to design a new set of rules that would support MPs and restore what he called "shattered trust".

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The white paper is expected to endorse the task force's call for centres of design and architectural excellence.

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However, for that kind of Web site-design task, you don't want a narrow focus, you want a broad focus.

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The reason for the success was the translation from a boring one-on-one task to a design appealing to human instincts of cooperation and competition.

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Standardization of IPP was slowed by clashes between the vendor-led IPP working group and the leadership of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), which questioned the protocol's design, scalability and security.

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