Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 1976, at a congress of Eastern and Western European Communist parties in East Berlin, leaders of the three parties flaunted their differences with the Soviet model of socialism, as Leonid Brezhnev stonily looked...
...Howard's Knob mountain, near Boone, N.C., the world's largest windmill is about to start producing electricity for up to 500 homes. Costing $6 million, it has two 100-ft. propeller blades, which will generate power for about 180 per kw. A similar looking but smaller model in Clayton, N, Mex., produces electricity for more than half the town's 3,000 residents...
...says that, although there is a lot of concern about how social security should be financed, "if social security induces people to retire early, it's sort of chasing its own tail in trying to finance it." He, like other researchers at the bureau, is building a simulation model and will then input data on population and labor sources, as well as behavioral estimates...
Slemrode adds that the bureau's president doesn't tell people what to think but Slemrode suggests that preconceptions can influence results. "My prediction (of the economy's next move) depends on all the assumptions I've had to make. Because that's true I try to test the model with many different assumptions," he explains. Slemrode says that basic to the whole project is the conservative assumption that all markets stay in equilibrium...
William Perry, longtime director of the Bureau of Study Counsel, won't be back on Linden St. next year. In his more than 20 years behind the chief counselor's desk, Perry revolutionized the concept of academic affairs counseling and turned Harvard's Bureau into a model for other schools. He also made more than a few friends along...