Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...State of the Union, Baer drew up a list of every idea mentioned in the speech, matching each one with a specific policy proposal and a media event to communicate it. The result was two months' worth of policies, often with two or three events a week. The campaign model, duplicated again and again, was a low-cost proposal to strengthen communities accompanied by a bully-pulpit road show featuring Good Neighbor Bill. Everything was coming up values. Morris began cherry-picking good new ideas throughout the Executive Branch, using his unmatched zeal to push them to fruition. The West...
...giant also agreed to subject itself to a review by an "Equity and Tolerance Task Force" that will attempt to identify and eliminate racial bias among Texaco workers. "With this litigation behind us, we can now move forward on our broader, urgent mission to make Texaco a model of workplace opportunity for all men and women," Peter I. Bijur, Texaco's chairman and chief executive, said in a statement. The lawsuit, filed in 1994, sought as much as $520 million on behalf of blacks who claimed that a "good old boy" network at Texaco reserved the best promotions and biggest...
...battle between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford is now seen as a model of civility, with two fundamentally decent men running fundamentally positive campaigns: Carter promising "a government as good...as the people," Ford coming from behind to near victory with a campaign featuring the jingle I'm Feeling Good About America. During that race, however, debate panelist Robert Maynard asked the candidates how much responsibility they were prepared to accept for the "low tone" of the campaign...
...designer's famous bias-cut dresses, many of which he has worked on. Galliano demands toiles (patterns) not of traditional muslin but of the same fine fabric the gown will be made of, and will not look at a garment in progress unless it is on a live model. It's a long, painstaking, expensive process...
...Commonwealth of Virginia did. It decided on Joseph Patrick Payne, a soft-spoken, 40-year-old eighth-grade dropout who is scheduled to die by lethal injection on Nov. 7. Yet Payne, while hardly a model citizen, may be innocent of this murder: his attorney has a stack of affidavits maintaining that the crime was committed by the man who became the state's star witness against Payne, as well as a signed document in which that witness confesses to framing him. Why, then, is Joe Payne still facing execution? "That's got me baffled," he admits...