Word: modeli
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Other students also relate anecdotes about their becoming accustomed to a different lifestyle. Vittimberga recalls an incident where he adapted to the Polynesian mode of operations. "My host mother asked me to get the bananas off the tree, so I climbed the tree and started hacking them off, but all these ants began crawling over me," he recalls. "Then she came out laughing hysterically, and told me that I was supposed to chop the tree down, then pick the bananas...
Reagan defended the "management style" that the Tower board cited as a key reason for the White House crisis, saying it was a mode of leadership that served him well as California Governor and for most of his presidency. While he conceded that his style "didn't match its previous track record" in the Iran-contra affair, he made no serious promise to reform his ways...
...warm, sweet-smelling atmosphere of ice cream and music behind the counter always floats me into a completely primal mode of being. I drift and bop in a peacefully chaotic world, popping taster spoons until my stomach bloats, bullshitting with my fellow scoopers, or flying into smart-ass raps with the customers...
...know everything that occurred on the Iranian side among and between the people who were working with the Iranians. I don't know everything the NSC did. The NSC was operating this thing; we were in a support mode...
SCENE: Two young literati meet in the subterrain of Adams House. One guy is finely garbed in the prevailing Europrep mode and carries a neatly pressed knapsack. The Other guy is stone washed, unwashed and sports a shoulder bag. As they are seniors, the exchange quickly comes around to what they are going to do with their lives...