Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tires have rigid, steel-reinforced belts circling the tire under the tread. The problems are apparently the result of heat buildup within the tire that causes the tread to separate from the steel-belted inner layer and produces blowouts. Firestone, which sold about 23 million of its 500-model radials between 1972 and 1976, recalled 410,000 of them on four occasions because of manufacturing defects...
Most experts on modern terrorism agree that the danger in combating it is to fall into a repressive reaction-which is exactly what the terrorists seek to provoke-and thus undermine the democratic values that are under attack. In the 1970s. Uruguay, once the model of democracy in South America, succeeded in wiping out the leftist Tupamaros. The cost was great: the get-tough climate set the stage for the military to seize power and set up a dictatorship. The dilemma of how to cope with terrorism is not lost on any European government these days. Spanish Premier Adolfo Suarez...
...with the young biographer as they pleased. Many hundreds did, and Biographer Bair had six years of work cut out for her. They were worth it. Samuel Beckett could have come swaddled in doctoral dissertationese, a hedging, clotted tongue as dead as ancient Babylonian. Instead, the book is a model of judicious, lively scholarship, an impressive translation of an enigma into...
...mentor, an older man who helps the growing adult fit into his society and who aids his development in many ways, may become critical in the phase of Early Adulthood. Besides the obvious functions he serves--integrating the adult into his career, teaching him, giving him a role model, smoothing the way for him, fostering his intellectual and moral development--the Mentor believes in the Dream, and in the dreamer, and makes the adult believe in himself. In a sense, he cleans off the mental carrot so it will be ready for consumption...
...Mary's High School he was captain of both the basketball and the golf team. "Paducah" held his own playing pick-up with University of Kentucky sharpshooter Jack "Goose" Givens when both were in high school, Paxton met Givens, who comes from Lexington, Kentucky, when both attended a model state legislature...