Word: modeled
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...reason to put off life's rewards. The Orlando couple saves almost nothing, despite a household income of more than $100,000. The Wardens plan to take a Utah skiing vacation this winter, on credit, and aim to move up from their $133,000 house to a model that costs $200,000 or more the minute they can afford it. "We're not satisfied just to be comfortable," says Richard. "Compared to our parents, we really live on the edge...
...more sweeping strategy to boost saving would be to shift some of the tax burden from income to consumption. One method might be the imposition of a national sales tax, which would work like state levies. Another model is the value-added tax used in many European countries. The VAT is paid at every point in the production and distribution chain where a product's value has been enhanced. Consumers would pay their share at the retail level. But as sensible as those or other consumption taxes may sound, they are too dicey politically to have much of a chance...
Students from schools as far away as Wisconsin, California and Canada convened Thursday in Boston for the Harvard-sponsored Model United Nations Conference, supervised by the International Relations Council. And yesterday, the delegates dressed in ties, jackets and skirts came to the Harvard campus to continue the conference held mainly at the Copley Marriot hotel...
...said she hopes to apply this restraint theory, formulated by Canadian researchers Janet Polivy and Peter Herman, to bulemia for the first time. Using other eating disorders as a model, Polivy and Herman postulated that after starving themselves, dieters experience a physchological state of deprivation and an increased amount of tension, which expresses itself in binging...
...plagued by problems and budget cuts over the past two years. Chemical lasers are widely discredited by scientists, who are dubious about the prospects for turning them into weapons. Moreover, they may never be tested in space because of restrictions imposed by international arms agreements. The aluminum-foil- covered model that Reagan so proudly inspected is, in the words of John Pike of the Federation of American Scientists, a "Potemkin village" -- a hollow shell...