Word: model
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...saved Blair from waging a campaign to ratify it in Britain that he almost certainly would have lost. Blair has managed to turn the ensuing chaos in the E.U. to his advantage, arguing forcefully to Europeans over the heads of their leaders that Britain's lower-regulation, higher-growth model shows a way out of the problems that have made them so dyspeptic. The selection of London last week to host the 2012 Olympics provided Blair with another long-odds win. (Blair was so nervous about the result that he took a walk rather than watch the announcement...
...father? OK: You really can't get caught up in it, because obviously I'm not going to be that successful. I don't even know if I would want to be that successful. I just want to write well, and tell stories well. When I think of a model for the kind of career I want to have, I think of a guy like Jakob Dylan. He's in this band, and he plays his own music, and it really doesn't sound all that much like his dad's. It speaks for itself. He worked really hard...
...taking steps to address global warming. But nowhere in the publicity efforts do you hear that the firm is part of an industry group suing California to block a regulation requiring a 30% cut in greenhouse-gas emissions for new vehicles sold in the state by the 2016 model year...
...interest? It's not just America's growing appetite for South Asian culture--movies like Bend It Like Beckham and stars like Bollywood actress and model Aishwarya Rai. The marketing thrust started with the 2000 Census, which revealed that during the 1990s the number of Indians in the U.S. more than doubled--making them the fastest-growing Asian minority. There are some 2.5 million desis in the U.S., and the vast majority are Indian. That may not seem terribly significant compared with, say, 40 million Hispanics, but consider how premium a customer a South Asian is: Indians alone commanded...
...authors generated an economic model defining the trade-off between popularity and academic achievement. They determined that that relationship is “categorically different” among each of the major racial groups...