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Word: modell (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Scene article on the Arkansas doctor from Saigon [Dec. 18] has shown me that somehow, somewhere, somebody from my country has courage, a strong will and a chance to build up a new life here in America, where it is difficult to adapt to culture differences. It was a model, a hope for my people, and I am personally proud for the Thieu Bui family...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 8, 1979 | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...three Kentucky Fried Chicken restaurants. He was chaplain in the Jaycees and even campaigned for the presidency of the organization. Then in 1968 he was convicted of sodomy with a 16-year-old boy and sentenced to ten years in prison. His wife divorced him, but he was a model citizen in prison and won parole after 18 months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: I Do Rotten, Horrible Things | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

Manufacturers are fine-tuning prices to help meet the federal Corporate Average Fuel Economy (or CAFE) standard of 19 m.p.g. for each company's entire line of cars in model year '79. The trick is to sell enough of the mini and subcompact models, averaging 28 to 30 m.p.g., to offset the heavier cars that get only 11 or 12 m.p.g...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Detroit Fine-Tunes Its Prices | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

...orchestration of the China move may be a textbook model for Carter as he picks his way through the difficult problems of the following months. While the details of the inner secret were known by only a few men, there were other layers of contact. The China experts in the State Department were asked to work out "hypothetical problems" that turned out to be not so hypothetical. And then key members of Congress were talked to in a general way about the same issues. Thus the Government "knew" without really knowing, and at the center the President moved along...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: The Virtues of Secrecy | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

...this woman truckin'? Model-Turned-Actress Deborah Raffin is revving up fo her role in a March 10 CBS movie, Willa. Raffin, 25, plays a waitress who takes up truck driving after her husband abandons her and the kids. To prepare for the role, she put in 50 hours learning how to drive a 16-wheel, 40,000-lb. rig. "It's so powerful you could almost run down a street light and not know it," says Raffin. "I was petrified." But the fright was worth it, Raffin thinks, because the film shows how well women can cope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Jan. 1, 1979 | 1/1/1979 | See Source »

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