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Consumer products, industrial machinery, and military equipment are intently evaluated for reliability of performance and life expectancy. Although the “military” and particular industrial users (for example, power plants both fossil fuel and nuclear fuel) have always followed some sort of reliability programs, consumer products have of late received the widest attention and publicity. One of […]
It is necessary to determine the fatigue strength of a material by experiment. This is achieved by subjecting test specimens to repeated loads of specified magnitudes and determining the number of cycles required to produce failure. Such results are plotted graphically with the alternating stress as the ordinate and the number of cycles to produce […]
In the second half of the twentieth century, the electorate learned that judging a candi-date on stands on issues was not a totally reliable predictor of his or her conduct in of-fice. Some candidates acted against voter expectations: Lyndon Johnson, elected in 1964 as the peace candidate, escalated the war in Vietnam. Some presidents proved […]
After the 1988 campaign, academic conferences around the country raised the question, Why did the press not point out the distortions and the false inferences invited by the 1988 presidential candidates’ ads? Among these were the implications of a Dukakis ad that Bush would all but eliminate Social Security, and the implications of a Bush […]
vIn this chapter we have examined the complex interaction among the candidates and the media in campaigns. One medium can be used to contextualize the content carried by another; for example, a print reporter may determine the accuracy of charges contained in a broadcast ad. Alternatively, an ad such as the anti-Nixon Watergate ads run […]
