Word: modeled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Washington's death stunned Chicago's black community. "He was a role model," said Congressman Charles Hayes, a Washington crony who represents the South Side district that sent the mayor to the House from 1981 to 1983. "I never believed Harold could open up a city and turn it around as he did." Roy Larson, editor of the monthly Chicago Reporter, called Washington's death a "loss in the family in the way Jack Kennedy...
...feels otherwise. "Other than parking," he says, "the only benefit is on gravel roads at speeds over 70 m.p.h." In Japan, where the technology was first marketed more than two years ago, car buyers seem favorably impressed. Nissan reports that 40% of the Japanese who pick the flashy Skyline model ask for four-wheel steering. Some 75% of those buying new Honda Prelude in Japan have purchased the high-tech option...
...Eastern Europe for America, where she found sudden fame because she is gorgeous. Just as her looks make the question of whether Krystyna has any real acting talent irrelevant to her success, so Porizkova's looks make the question of her own talent moot. It is not that model Porizkova demonstrates in her debut role that she cannot act, but rather, in this movie, Porizkova, like Krystyna, simply doesn't have...
...Cambridge skins emulate the working class British model, which started in the early 1970s, according to Whelan...
...more than a dozen languages, Yugoslavia has been divided against itself since it was founded in 1918. But the charismatic Tito brought unity to Yugoslavia and took it out of the Soviet orbit. Before he died in 1980, after 35 years in power, Yugoslavia appeared to be a model of innovation -- and a proudly neutral nation wooed and respected by both East and West...