Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...also power some Mercedes sedans and Peugeots-and this week those cars will get a U.S. rival. General Motors will bring out the first U.S.-made diesel passenger car. It plans to offer the diesel as an optional engine on 50,000 Oldsmobile 88s and 98s in the 1978 model-year...
...schools shown in the film are mainly in Massachusetts, where a bill to provide equal education for the handicapped was put into effect in 1974, becoming the model for the federal act. Since that Massachusetts bill became law, says Michael Daly, deputy commissioner of the state's department of education, the system has fairly successfully absorbed 50,000 students who need special education...
...elimination of large farms with owners who let their fields lie fallow to produce artificial shortages, has meant that natural disasters no longer mean starvation for millions. Now, the country feeds everyone who lives--which cannot be said of any Third World country trying to develop on a capitalist model...
...author's paragraphs march slowly, but they march well. The suspects include mischievous caricatures from the New York art world-a guileful art dealer, a slithery lawyer, a glittering female collector of celebrities, a vacant former model who is Maitland's widow, and so on. All of these art lovers are very covetous indeed. The most appealing, though not necessarily the most villainous, is a brilliantly facile painter named Jake Dukker, who has profitably latched on to every new art fad in the past 20 years. Says someone of Dukker: "If the Hudson River School ever comes back...
...steel industry, once noted for hard-fought strikes, has for most of the past two decades been a model of labor tranquillity. In 1973, the United Steelworkers even formally surrendered the right to strike the basic steel industry over "economic" (wage and benefit) issues; in a widely hailed Experimental Negotiating Agreement (ENA), it pledged to submit pay disputes to binding arbitration. But last week more than 14,000 iron-ore miners shattered steel's separate peace by walking off their jobs in Michigan and Minnesota. It was the first substantial strike in any segment of basic steel...