Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most governments throughout Asia and the developing world resolutely refuse either to stop their soaring population growth or adopt the kind of free economic model that would generate jobs and wealth. Until they change, the U.S. must refuse to admit a single refugee or provide the countries involved with a penny...
Approach #2. The Duke Mantee Autograph Model Paranoid Approach. Recommended for the Shy, the Truly Paranoid, and the Easily Disgusted. Prerequisites: A nascent sense of misanthropy or the inability to deal with people whom you are convinced are either out to get you or trying to prove their superiority. This famous approach, also suggested for the disdainful, lets you waltz through Freshman Week as an observer. As a non-combatant, you get to watch everyone else have a real "good time" while you stand at the fringes, cringing or remaining aloof. Just remember to be aware of the distance...
...domestic travel, he used the trip to address nationwide concerns, notably the need to reduce the heavy U.S. dependence on foreign oil. On his way to Bardstown, he stopped off at the Cane Run electric power plant on the outskirts of Louisville. It was chosen because it is a model of what the President wants: a power plant that burns coal instead of oil and uses expensive "scrubbers" to keep even high-sulfur coal from polluting the air. Facing a crowd of workers in yellow, orange and green hard hats, Carter declared: "I would rather burn another ton of Kentucky...
Washington Political Columnist David Broder believes that "we are a nation between clarifying ideas." The endlessly westward-expanding land became a model for the ever booming industrial and technological republic. Now America must formulate a new philosophy that acknowledges the reality, even the desirability, of limitations, of more intelligent, creative, careful use of its endowment. Many believe that a new generation of leaders is now working at the next "clarifying idea." Says former U.S. Commissioner of Education Ernest Boyer: "Conditions are building that will revitalize leadership. People are not willing to live endlessly with ambiguity. There is something within...
...conflict is also between tradition and progress, farm and factory. Abhorring the very idea of living in industrial townships, the Bedouins argue instead for the creation of their own moshavim, the model agricultural cooperatives that have been especially successful in the northern Sinai. But Israeli government officials have long insisted that the tribesmen are needed as a labor force for new industries that are planned for the Negev. Moreover, the well-equipped, high production moshavim require large tracts and expensive irrigation. And, as one senior official bluntly told TIME's Lesley Hazleton, "I'm not giving good Jewish...