Gone, too, are the days in which designers worked at a drawing board with no feedback.
Some one on his staff, sitting on a chair working over a map on a drawing board, growled at him in the language Robert Jordan did not understand.
He lightheartedly recalled a "man with a high mission" who also enjoyed playing Stratego, a board game drawing on Napoleonic history, and belting out "La Marseillaise" and French nursery rhymes when the two companions found themselves in trying circumstances.
So the transport minister was forced to perform a humiliating volte face and go back to the drawing board - at a cost for the taxpayer which may well run to hundreds of millions of pounds.
And they have observed that the original -- unimaginative -- military plan for Operation Desert Storm in the Gulf War was rejected by the civilian leadership, which ordered a return to the drawing board.
According to it, Nintendo has a new "game system" on the drawing board that incorporates acceleration sensors in a "housing" to detect movement and direction.
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Massive cost overruns would send liberal planners back to the drawing board for a much higher price.
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Next on the drawing board: a digital machine to help you sleep better.
The ingenuity of derivatives traders in adapting to both market forces and regulations may well send supervisors back to the drawing board in a decade or so.
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Some very cool science is on the drawing board: a recombinant vaccine that pairs salmonella with a gene from, say, the organism that causes tuberculosis as an oral delivery system to stimulate the body's natural immunity to both bacteria.
That's when it's a long way from leaving the drawing board, let alone the dockside.
But that is one scheme, which it has taken him a decade to get off the drawing board.
Then go back to the drawing board and design a more targeted bill.
Unfortunately, the Lukwerks cameras do not support panning or zooming, automatic notification of a call center is on the drawing board.
This is sending companies like Comcast and the other cable television companies back to the drawing board to offer a better combination of services.
The best thing that could happen is that they fall short of their estimates, go back to the drawing board and find a better way to use this finite resource.
Apart from an ancient aluminium complex, Montenegro's main industrial hope lies on the drawing-board: a chain of hydro-electric plants that could supply power to Albania and Greece and across the Adriatic to Italy.
In Shanghai alone two new fabs are under construction, another two are on the drawing board, and over a dozen more are in the early planning stages.
Paris-based Sanofi-Synthelabo (nyse: SNY - news - people ) was sent back to the drawing board and returned with a trial that took a more conservative approach, asking for approval only as a second-line medicine.
Their mission is to come up with a way to get ideas from the drawing board to the manufacturing floor to the marketplace as swiftly as possible, which will help create quality jobs, and make our businesses more competitive.
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Of course, managing to play nice with every single powerful handset in the world would be a monumental challenge, and we're still a ways off from having a true laptop-replacing cellphone, but we'd wager that this here invention is certainly not a bad one to have on the drawing board.
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Carter and Jay W. Lorsch: " Back to the Drawing Board: Designing Corporate Boards for a Complex World", Harvard Business School Press, 2003.
Since USACE was already budgetarily hard-pressed to maintain the very valuable lock and dam infrastructure and no third party would build a network for a single application, we went back to the drawing board.
Lose and I am back to the drawing board, win and I am in a great position.
That led her to launch HopeLab, a non-profit that took Re-Mission from the drawing board to an actual product.
The draft Communications Data Bill was sent "back to the drawing board" in December after scathing criticism from a joint committee of MPs and peers.
Europe, as I indicated in a previous posting, has had to go back to the drawing board following the Americans' decision to pull out of their joint 2016 and 2018 missions.
Both attempts at digital board-gaming demonstrate how Scrabulous filled a niche by drawing on Facebook's greatest asset--what Zuckerberg calls "the social graph, " the links between users and their friends.
He had big bulldog clips, a masonite board, yellow Ticonderoga pencils, erasers, sketchpads, drawing paper equipment that he stored in a grocery carton at the bottom of our bedroom closet and that my mother, when she was cleaning, wasn't permitted to disturb.
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