Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...smart asset allocation model andsuccessful investments," said Elizabeth C."Beppie" Huidekopper, Harvard vice president forfinance...
...would call a "minority" in the Roman Empire, and something of a rebellious teenager. They forget that this traveling rabbi had no riches to speak of, counted prostitutes, beggars and criminals among his principal acquaintances and was ultimately killed for undermining the prevailing institutions of his day. Our Christian model was a radical, not a reactionary, concerned about the "least of his people," not the privileged, or particularly, the ordinary individual. And Christianity today carries on that tradition...
...former governor characterized Hong Kong as China's link to the world and said it should serve as a model for China. In his book, he writes: "Hong Kong is at one and the same time China's window on the world, bridge to the world, shop front for the world and paradigm for the world of what China as a whole could become...
...tiles to jellies, and who is credited with bringing the world the bubble dress, colored tights and roulette trousers, now wants to do something really big: he plans to build a 435-ft.-high fluorescent obelisk near the site of the old Alexandria lighthouse in Egypt. This column, a model of which was unveiled last week, will be a little fancier than the one that tumbled into the sea about 600 years ago. It will be made of concrete covered in mirrored glass, with 16,500 computer-controlled lights inside, and will cast colored light beams 43 miles...
...wholly plausible characters. Terribly well meaning but also mentally handicapped ("Not being the full ticket" is how Pettie puts it), Albert plays a crucial role in determining whether Letitia's innocent death will be followed by others. Trevor's narrative tone is, as always, gentle and nuanced, a model of calm understatement. But for all the wit and charm of Death in Summer, horror stories don't get much more hair-raising than this...