Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...seventh-grade girls at the Longfellow School in Cambridge have the opportunity to closely observe an older role model the entire school year...
...reason for bulking up, according to Francesco Giavazzi, a professor at Milan's prestigious Bocconi business school, is that corporate size really does matter in banking, especially since the biggest banks are turning into one-stop service centers. According to Giavazzi, European banks are starting to follow another American model by replacing their traditional business of lending money with such financial services as asset management. "Being good is not good enough in asset management," Giavazzi says. "A bank has to be the best to attract customers, and that requires technology and highly trained personnel, which all cost money...
...business model working well in electronic form, with PCs replacing the box. Offers and suggestions pour in to this Internet freak show. "We are always working on ways of getting controversial material," says Warshavsky, who weeds out legitimate offers--relatively speaking, of course--from the cranks and seeks his next lucrative magic trick...
...learned from other structures too. As a kid he built model aircraft, and as an adult he flies real ones, both fixed-wing and helicopters. He did his national service in the Royal Air Force and regards the time he spent working in a hangar as a big influence on his later designs. Way back in the genetic code of his buildings is a feeling for hangar-like lightness, strength and frugality of consumption that came out brilliantly in such projects as his 1981 design for the airport at Stansted in England. Earlier airports had massive concentrations of ductwork above...
DIVORCING. BROOKE SHIELDS, 33, TV actress and model, and ANDRE AGASSI, 28, pro-tennis bigwig; after two years of marriage; in Las Vegas...