Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Grand Forks, North Dakota and the I Tapa Keg Fraternity of the University of Anchorage are disappointed to find that they have been turned down by the management in favor of a delegation from Luxembourg--consisting of the country's entire population--which will be hosted by the Harvard Model Nuclear Superpower Conference...
...Chemistry Department serves as a model for flexibility. The requirements are a year of inorganic, organic, math and physics each, and a semester of labs--the last two years of college can, therefore, be filled with only three chemistry half-courses if a student wishes. These requirements are what those of the other sciences ought to look like. A student must take what is necessary for a knowledge base, but that student can also avoid all upper-level courses...
...model student, Marilyn was "always real popular," according to classmate Kathy Hyde Parker, "but never with the bad kids." Her self-styled feminism was awakened early: she wanted to play basketball in high school but balked at the half-court games girls then had to play. At Purdue she ran for freshman-class treasurer and formed the Pep Girls, a pom-pom cheerleader squad that she directed with no nonsense. "At our meetings we didn't horse around," says former Pep Girl Barbara Little...
...tests have sometimes caused harm to people who are falsely implicated. Such is the case of Shama Holleman, a college student who took a job in 1987 as a part-time cashier for Alexander's department-store chain in New York City. After a month as a model employee, she was fired because a polygraph test indicated that she might be a drug dealer and might have served a prison sentence. Neither was true. Holleman sued Alexander's, and they reached an out-of-court settlement...
...COVER GIRL AND THE COP (NBC, Jan. 16, 9 p.m. EST). A streetwise cop is assigned to guard a frivolous actress-model, witness to a murder. Dinah Manoff and Julia Duffy, two of the tube's slyest comedians, play the odd- couple title characters in this TV movie...