Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Cormack said he believes physicians' demands for improvements in the device were responsible for keeping the prices high. Doctors, he said, continually asked for "the new and improved model" and this naturally drove up development costs...
...advisors on the eve of the German invasion in June 1941 as a pack of drooling children barely able to complete a crossword puzzle, let alone manage a nation. Voinovich's farce bludgeons where a lighter hand might better serve Western audiences weaned on Animal Farm's model of anti-Stalinist allegory...
...resolve, the U.S. and Mexico have agreed to cooperate on less sensitive problems. They have launched bilateral ventures in arid land management, water control and the pooling of science and technology. Tijuana and San Diego are working on a joint program to control air pollution, which may become a model for other twin cities along the frontier. New pacts have been signed that should lead to greater cross-border cooperation in dealing with such crimes as narcotics smuggling and auto theft. And, as one State Department official puts it, the recent gas deal "could serve as a symbolic link that...
...this third novel (after Last Night at the Brain Thieves' Ball and Preservation Hall) Spencer builds a model of emergent love pursued to its obsessive extreme. The author constructs his tale around an apposite metaphor, catastrophic fire. Seventeen-year-old David Axelrod sets some newspapers alight on the porch of his beloved Jade's house after her parents have forbidden him to see her for 30 days. He wishes to attract attention and instead nearly incinerates Jade, her brothers and parents...
...plant site and physically prevent further construction by remaining there indefinitely. Our strength lies in our numbers, and in the clarity of our vision-- to create, with the help of the local populace, an antinuclear community of people building, gardening, living and experimenting on the site, in the model of the successful European nuclear site occupations...