Word: modeling
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South Korea is far from being a model democracy. Yet compared with their compatriots in the North, South Korea's 37.5 million citizens enjoy a surprising amount of freedom to worship, travel, work where they choose, and even to speak their minds. In the past few weeks, Park has allowed far more public dissent than he has for years, even though some observers complain that the new liberty was mere window dressing for the two-day Carter visit. Nevertheless, Kim Young Sam, newly elected leader of the New Democratic Party, has taken advantage of the respite to demand...
...Trust, which has been keeping tabs on the fat cat population for marketing purposes for the past decade, reached its conclusions on the basis of a computer model that it developed; its calculations take into account assessments of population growth, earnings trends and money-market performance. According to Vice President Rodney Woods, the difference between today's millionaires and those of the past goes beyond numbers. Says he: "Historically the greatest proportion of millionaires had inherited wealth. In recent years, that proportion has sharply diminished...
Data Resources maintains a complex, computerized model of the American economy. Major corporations pay an average of $51,000 yearly to gain access to DRI's computer and its economic data...
...seat in Parliament and one of the most promising careers in British politics. In the most bizarre sexual-political scandal since War Minister John Profumo's dalliance with Girl-About-Town Christine Keeler in 1963, Thorpe had been accused of plotting to murder Norman Scott, a former male model, because Scott's allegations of a homosexual affair between them threatened Thorpe's career...
...range versions of the plane, known as the series 30 and 40, rather than the older, shorter-range series 10, which was involved in the Chicago crash. The Europeans claim that the pylon and wing attachments in the long-haul versions are sturdier than those used on the original model, although, in fact, they carry heavier engines than the ones used on the series...