According to military officials, the new generation of weapons the Pentagon is looking to buy is designed to selectively destroy armored vehicles and either self-destruct or deactivate itself if it does not find an appropriate target — making it theoretically less likely than older versions of the weapon to harm civilians.
But for now, neither of us can escape the reality that food, like everything else we buy, is designed to be cheap to make, to last forever and to taste better than the next product down the shelf.
Bad design because almost nothing we buy is designed to be re-used at the end of its life, and carelessness because so much of what we discard could be re-used or recycled if only the items were placed in the proper bin.
Right-to-buy was designed for the 1980s, for the boom years; in bust we need something new, something flexible and something designed locally.
Lawyers for the brothers explain that the share-buying was designed to see off the late Robert Maxwell, a crooked British media magnate, who was raiding the stockmarket for shares in Bouygues SA.
The SEC's case against Goldman and last week's Senate beat-down are based on the charges that Goldman failed to disclose to its clients that the derivatives their clients were buying were designed to fail.
The surprise of Osborne's 2013 budget, the help-to-buy scheme was designed to kickstart the housing market and help first-time buyers and movers who, following the credit crunch, were finding it hard to get home loans without a large deposit.
Origo, the entity that bought High Times, was designed specifically for this purpose.
The subsequent film, which ends with an explicit and rousing exhortation to buy war bonds, was designed to keep this opinion onside.
Sometimes they performed signature acts; other times they pushed product or crooned songs written for the event like "Buy, buy, buy". All of this activity was designed to prime the pump and secure pre-sales before the midnight kickoff.
