Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nearly a quarter of a century, Puerto Rico's "Operation Bootstrap" has served as a model of what a backward economy can accomplish under honest, imaginative leadership. Since 1942, when the island's development program got under way, per capita income has risen from $120 to $905, il literacy has been largely eliminated, life expectancy has jumped from 46 years...
...McHale, executive director of World Resources Inventory, puts it: "The future of the future is in the present." Some other methods seem fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts are queried and re-queried for their forecasts, arriving finally at a near-consensus. Prognosticators concede that the timing...
Devoted professional women, then, are "jealous of their positions" and unwilling to help their sisters; but self-declared house-wives sell out, too. Mrs. Friedan cannot find any model for her "four-dimensional women." She disdains most American women because they settle for jobs as clerk-typists yet she blindly works for a millennium, a "human revolution...
...rest of the cast writhes under the direction of Alan Arkin, known until now as an actor. Just as Neil Simon provides a model for good comedy writing, Mike Nichols has come to be considered the comedy director to emulate; but Arkin, himself a veteran of the Nichols-directed Luv, fails to match up to the master...
This was the situation, at least, in Europe. In Asia we hoped to reach a similar implicit understanding with China: no big wars, and a firm division of territory. But in trying to stretch our model of the international system into Asia, Oglesby argues, we exposed some of its most inhuman possibilities. The principles which gave Western Europe a benevolent heaven of Marshall aid yielded in Asia a napalm-filled bell...