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	Oral History Project
		The RAND interviews were conceived as another angle of inquiry on the relations between expert knowledge and the military in the early Cold War.
		RAND drew together engineers, scientists, and mathematicians whose specialities were oriented toward military hardware design and the physical sciences and sociologists, political scientists, economists, pschologists, and other social science and humanities specialists.
		RAND was perhaps most well-known for crafting tools that were intended to transform military decision-making from an art into a science, from a practice based on the experience of officers to a professional field with canons of rigor and testability.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/ohp-introduction.html (6690 words)

	Abstract: Non Serviam
		Rand's Russian nature was not reflected merely in her heavy foreign accent or in the mammoth size of her novels.
		Rand's revolt against formal dualism is illustrated in her rejection of such "false alternatives" as materialism and idealism, intrinsicism (or old- style, classical "objectivism") and subjectivism, rationalism and empiricism.
		Rand proudly declared that she was a philosophical "innovator" and a "radical" for capitalism, with everything that this implied.
	www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/rad/nonserv.htm (2763 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: City Council Set To Approve RAND Project
		RAND played a critical role in the development of the Civic Center Specific Plan (CCSP) which was approved by City Council in 1993 and ratified by voters in 1994.
		RAND is requesting that the City "expand the type of uses that will be permitted on the [headquarters] site" beyond institutional offices so it would be able, if necessary, to lease out portions of the building to other types of businesses.
		RAND also wants to reduce the size of the proposed Main Street Circle from a 95-foot radius designated in the CCSP to a 65-foot radius which would shrink it in size from 0.6 acres to 0.3 acres.
	www.smmirror.com /volume2/issue14/city_council_set.html (520 words)

	About RAND \| History and Mission \| The Original Research and Development Think Tank
		RAND researchers and analysts continue to be on the cutting edge of their fields, working with decisionmakers in both the public and private sectors to find solutions to today's difficult, sensitive, and important problems.
		Many of the highlights of RAND's early contributions to policymaking were summarized in a 1996 book commemorating the 50th anniversary of Project RAND, the predecessor of the RAND Corporation.
		Project RAND has a historic record of achievement in the development of computing: RAND staff designed and built one of the earliest computers, developed an early on-line interactive terminal-based computer system, and invented the telecommunications technique that has become the basis for modern computer networks.
	www.rand.org /history (1785 words)

	The Heirs of Ayn Rand
		Rand began with a simple definition of value as "that which one acts to gain and/or keep." By this definition, the basic value for any living organism is survival.
		WHEN RAND DIED in early 1982, her work had enthusiasts in the White House, where deregulation and supply-side economics were predicated on the virtue of selfishness.
		The sudden opening permitted Rand's admirers to glimpse the secret history of their movement's beginnings--and at last to understand the break (as the events of August 1968 were still called).
	www.mclemee.com /id39.html (5654 words)

	Santa Monica Mirror: RAND and The City: Part Two
		Almost immediately, RAND proposed a massive commercial development on its Main Street acreage, positing that the end of the Cold War would trigger a severe financial decline and therefore it had to find new sources of revenue.
		As one former RAND man said, "These boys've always been nimble." As if to prove its flexibility, soon after the collapse of the so-called evil empire, RAND signed an agreement with its longtime nemesis, the Russian government, to do analysis and research on population, migration, health insurance, school reform and worker training.
		Sam Cohen, a physicist, longtime RAND hand and inventor of the neutron bomb, recently said, "Those first years were golden years...We had some very sweet ideas." In addition to Cohen's bomb, RAND scientists developed weather and reconnaissance satellites and the ICBM.
	www.smmirror.com /Volume1/issue20/rand_and_the_city.html (825 words)

	Ayn Rand - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Rand was twelve at the time of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and her family life was disrupted by the rise of the Bolshevik party.
		Rand stated her new name was derived from the Cyrillic spelling of her family's name, and the Ayn Rand Institute noted a similarity between the name Rand and the spelling of "Rosenbaum" in Cyrillic on her college diploma.
		Rand's defenders argue that her opposition to government intervention to end private discrimination was motivated by her valuing individual rights above civil (due to a rejection of the concept of "collective rights") and therefore her view did not constitute an endorsement of the morality of the prejudice per se.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Ayn_Rand (8052 words)

	RAND tables
		RAND conducted analysis of assessments from five of the six Bridge Project states—California, Georgia, Maryland, Oregon, and Texas.
		Illinois, which was part of the Bridge Project study, was not used because assessments were in a state of flux at the time of the RAND analysis.
		Using these results as a guideline, RAND decided that differences of 25 percent or less are considered “small,” (i.e., the tests are well-aligned), differences between 25 percent and 50 percent are “moderate,” (i.e., the tests are moderately aligned), and differences greater than 50 percent are “large” (i.e., the tests are not well-aligned).
	www.stanford.edu /group/bridgeproject/RANDtables.html (3392 words)

	PROJECT 1947: A Ghost Rocket Chronology - The Chiles-Whitted Sighting
		The first thing Project SIGN wanted to do was to impress airline pilots with the idea that they should not reveal such incidents to the press before they reported them to the Air Force.
		Project SIGN was determined to leave no stone unturned in attempting to solve this case, so on August 2 Col McCoy of Project SIGN dutifully sent a teletype to the Navy's flight operations office at Patuxent River Naval Air Station to enquire about the exact position of the RV6 at the time of the sighting.
		Within hours, bewildered air traffic controllers and dispatchers began replying with the requested information, and when all 255 flight reports had been received, SIGN compiled the data into a huge table that served mainly as evidence of the intense pressure the Wright Field technical intelligence personnel were feeling from their superiors.
	www.project1947.com /gr/chileswhitted.htm (2735 words)

	PROJECT 1947: The RAND World-Circling Spaceship
		RAND's engineers took a more conservative approach than the HATV designers had, basing their rocket more closely on German V-2 technology and electing to use multiple stages to send the satellite into orbit.
		RAND's advanced rocket engineering concepts were attractive to Project SIGN, the Air Force's UFO analysis activity at Wright Field, which by the middle of 1948 was leaning toward the idea that some "flying disc" reports might represent actual extraterrestrial spacecraft.
		RAND would pursue work on reconnaissance satellites well into the 1950s, and as early as 1951 it conducted ground-based electronic experiments aimed at testing the feasibility of real-time video imagery downlinks from military spacecraft.
	www.project1947.com /gr/worldcircling.htm (679 words)

	The Pardee RAND Graduate School \| RAND Environment \| What Is RAND?
		RAND is a fascinating playground for the practical intellectual.
		RAND built the world's first operational computer with a core memory and we developed the technique of "packet switching," which is the centerpiece of the Internet.
		For example, RAND studies were the first to measure the efficiency of our court system, the dynamics of illegal drug markets, and the dimensions of worldwide terrorism.
	www.prgs.edu /environment/randwhat.html (1744 words)

	RAND Corporation - SourceWatch
		The interlocks between the trustees at Rand, and the Ford, Rockefeller, and Carnegie foundations were so numerous that the Reece Committee listed them in its report (two each for Carnegie and Rockefeller, and three for Ford).
		This is divided into Project Air Force, the Arroyo Center (serving the needs of the Army), and the National Defense Research Institute (providing research and analysis for the Office of the Secretary of Defense, the Joint Staff, and the defense agencies).
		RAND was set up, in 1945, by the USAAF as Project RAND, under contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company, and in 1945 they released the Preliminary Design of an Experimental World-Circling Spaceship.
	www.sourcewatch.org /index.php?title=RAND_Corporation (460 words)

	Rand Engineering & Architecture, PC - Services
		Before beginning a major project, such as adding a roof deck or restructuring a home or office, a feasibility study determines the proposed project’s impact on the adjacent spaces and units and on the building as a whole.
		Rand evaluates and compiles construction documents for upgrades of critical components, including boilers and heating plants; domestic water systems; electrical mains, wiring, and submetering; chillers; sanitation and refuse; fire protection; elevators; and intercoms.
		Rand's priority on such projects is to keep the facility operating during the repair program with minimal disruption to customers.
	www.randpc.com /Services (1296 words)

	DOJ/DHS National Computer Security Survey \| Privacy Policy
		And, as a private, non-governmental organization, RAND is not subject to the FOIA.
		RAND has never been compelled to release such information in all of its 58 year history.
		For this project, RAND has submitted a "Privacy Certificate" that complies with 28 CFR 22.23.
	www.ncss.rand.org /privacy.html (353 words)

	RAND - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		RAND has approximately 1600 employees and four principal locations: Santa Monica, California (headquarters); Washington, D.C. (currently located in Arlington, Virginia); Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (adjacent to Carnegie Mellon University); and Cambridge, United Kingdom (RAND Europe).
		RAND is also the home to the Frederick S. Pardee RAND Graduate School, one of the original graduate programs in public policy and the first to offer a Ph.D. The program is unique in that students work alongside RAND analysts on real-world problems.
		Donald Rumsfeld — Chairman of RAND Corporation from 1981-1986 and Secretary of Defense for the United States from 1975 to 1977 and 2001 to 2006.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Project_RAND (1130 words)

	DOJ/DHS National Computer Security Survey \| Frequently Asked Questions
		The RAND Corporation is a non-partisan, private nonprofit research institution established in 1948 to conduct independent, objective research and analysis to advance public policy.
		The ISE's mission is to improve the development, operation, use, and protection of society’s essential built and natural assets and to enhance the related social aspects of safety and security of individuals in transit and in their workplaces and communities.
		RAND is performing this work under a cooperative agreement with the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
	www.ncss.rand.org /faqs.html (1833 words)

	T&C - RAND Corp. (defense procurement, defence acquisition, military purchasing)
		RAND Corp. in Santa Monica, CA received a $210.6 million cost-reimbursement plus fee-for-need contract to provide for RAND Project Air Force, Research of Air and Space Power.
		Originally known as Project RAND (an acronym for research and development), PAF was established in 1946 by General H. "Hap" Arnold as a way of retaining for the United States Air Force (USAF) the considerable benefits of civilian scientific thinking that had been demonstrated during World War II.
		RAND's Project Air Force looked at both programs with the intent of understanding how each project's history turned out the way it did, what underlying factors might be at work, and what lessons might be learned.
	www.defenseindustrydaily.com /tc_rand_corp/index.php (1564 words)

	RAND \| Palestine Project: Palestinian State Study Report
		Following two years of research funded by private donors, the RAND Corporation has published three studies that provide an in-depth and comprehensive nation-building plan to overcome these obstacles, as well as a design to meet the population's infrastructure needs.
		RAND's second study explored options for addressing the infrastructure needs of a growing Palestinian population.
		The third study by RAND, Building a Successful Palestinian State: Security, examines the external security issues that must be met for there to be a successful independent Palestinian state following a peace agreement with Israel.
	www.rand.org /palestine (267 words)

	The LUCILE Project - Rand, McNally & Co.
		The LUCILE Project - Rand, McNally and Co.
		Andrew McNally and William H. Rand bought the job office of the Chicago Tribune in1864; in1871 (during the Chicago Fire), they bought the only surviving printing plant; incorporated 1873.
		Rand McNally acquired the W.B. Conkey Company in 1949, and the corporate archive of both companies is held by the Newberry Library (Chicago).
	sdrc.lib.uiowa.edu /lucile/publishers/rand/RAND.HTM (1920 words)

	Discover Ayn Rand - DiscoverAynRand.COM - PRODOS Institute Inc. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		The aim of this project is to encourage the study and appreciation of Ayn Rand's ideas.
		In Esthetics (Art) Ayn Rand defined the nature of Romanticism and why, for humans, art is not a luxury, but a vital need that derives from the volitional nature of human consciousness.
		Ayn Rand's extraordinary intellect dealt with such matters as: The nature of volition (free will), use of the gold standard in economics, heroism in art, the legacy of Aristotle, what's wrong with altruism and collectivism.
	www.discoveraynrand.com (684 words)

	Press Releases 2006 - State Begins Construction On Final Phase of Rand Park Flood Control Project
		Phase three of the Rand Park Flood Control and Multi-Use Trail Project involves construction of a new flood control wall with a new bicycle trail extension along the east bank of the river from the Union Pacific Railroad to Rand Road.
		The project also includes construction of an earthen levee along Rand Road to the I-294 ramp at the Dempster Avenue interchange, construction of a backflow gate near Big Bend Lake reservoir, which will prevent flooding along Farmers Creek, and associated road closure gates at Rand Road and Ballard Road.
		Earlier phases of the project involved construction of a culvert extension and backflow gate on the Union Pacific Railroad embankment, completed in January 2000, which provides local drainage under the levee back into the Des Plaines River, and prevents homes and businesses along Busse Highway from flooding.
	www.desplaines.org /ReferenceDesk/PressReleases/2006/060802.htm (847 words)

	THE RAND CORPORATION [RU 9536] - Smithsonian Videohistory Collection
		The RAND (Research and Development) Corporation of Santa Monica, California, began as a United States Air Force Project in 1945 under contract to the Douglas Aircraft Company.
		This was due in part to conflicts over the definition of RAND's role, diversification of RAND's clientele, the appearance of other research centers, and the departure of a significant number of RAND personnel.
		In 1947 he transferred to Project RAND where he worked as an electronic engineer on the development of the Random Number Generator, the modification of the REAC, the Williams memory of the SWAC, and the JOHNNIAC.
	www.si.edu /archives/ihd/videocatalog/9536.htm (3475 words)

	Spreading Ayn Rand in Russia - Ayn Rand Meta-Blog (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-13)
		Celebrating the 100th anniversary of Rand’s birth, the International Society for Individual Liberty (ISIL) has launched a project titled the “Year of Ayn Rand” Book Project.
		Thus Ayn Rand and her Objectivism, with such obvious Russian roots, could very well satisfy this demand for a new ideology — and could shape the ideological and philosophical foundation of the Russian-speaking world for many years to come.
		The long-term goal of the project is to introduce the works of Ayn Rand and her philosophy to Russian-speaking countries, and to make these ideas a part of the intellectual mainstream of the culture.
	www.theatlasphere.com /metablog/23.php (362 words)

	Lingua Franca - The Heirs of Ayn Rand
		But [Sciabarra] insists that Russian culture was the strongest and most pervasive influence on [Rand's] vision, especially the culture of the early twentieth century (extending into the first years of the Communist era) when avant-garde movements like symbolism and futurism joined Hegelian and Nietzschean philosophical currents to generate a cultural renaissance.
		The evidence that Rand knew her professor's work in any depth is slim indeed.
		There was something to provoke everyone in the very title of Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand (1999), a collection of papers Sciabarra co-edited with Mimi Reisel Gladstein (whose earlier book Rand had tried to stop).
	www.nyu.edu /projects/sciabarra/about/lf.htm (633 words)

	The RAND History Project, Part 1, A-K
		He describes the department's work on the two air defense studies and other projects, his contributions to them, interaction with other departments and outside institutions, impact of RAND's work on USAF policy, and his posting as a RAND liaison in the Office of the Assistant for Developmental Planning in the mid-1950s.
		He then describes his transfer in 1947 to the Missiles Division of the RAND Project; contributions to satellite, reconnaissance, and other studies; impressions of Amrom Katz; and RAND's relations with the USAF and the aerospace industry.
		He then describes moving to the RAND Project in the same capacity in December 1946, relations with AAF and later USAF contracting officers, policies and procedures for subcontracts and individual consulting contracts, personnel recruitment and salaries, creation of the accounting and purchasing systems, and the background of and his role in RAND's incorporation.
	www.nasm.si.edu /research/dsh/rhpi-p1.html (8469 words)

	The Pardee RAND Graduate School \| On-the-Job Training \| Projects
		RAND > PRGS > On-the-Job Training > Projects
		Through my OJT, I have had the opportunity to work with public and private sector clients, be an active member of project teams, attend meetings and conferences, and to contribute to the writing of proposals and RAND publications.
		Projects that overlap categories are listed in all applicable areas
	www.prgs.edu /ojt/ojtprojects.html (666 words)

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