Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Time in the fall of 1995, he saw the potential relationship between himself and Dole as replicating the World War II link between General George Marshall, the Army Chief of Staff who set the war's strategy, and Dwight Eisenhower, who then dutifully implemented it. Dole had a different model in mind and mumbled, "Oh yeah? We'll see," when told of Gingrich's comments. Dole must have had a sense of foreboding: by drama's end, Clinton's astutely negative television campaign would cleverly marry the two men's images to leave the impression that the (evil) Newt, rather...
...would not be overwhelmed by immense factories. After WWII, zoning codes became even more restrictive so as to separate most aspects of life from each other. Today, Kunstler says, "What zoning produces is suburban sprawl, which must be understood as the product of a particular set of instructions.... [This] model of the human habitat dictated by zoning is a formless, soul-less, centerless, demoralizing mess...
...ratty University of Illinois dorm of Andreessen, then 21, a Midwesterner who liked nothing so much as an afternoon in front of the computer, geeking out. Over a few dozen of those code-filled afternoons in 1993, Andreessen and his youthful collaborators put the finishing touches on the Model T of Web-browsing programs. They called it Mosaic, because it combined all the pieces of the Net--text, audio, images--onto "pages" that could be viewed from anywhere in the world. Mosaic was the first glimpse of a multimedia future that giants such as Microsoft had been predicting...
...Authorities busted a sweatshop in New York, where workers were locked in and the sprinkler system was broken. The clothes made there for K Mart bore Ireland's label. "I will not, and K Mart will not, tolerate unscrupulous practices in the manufacture of my products," said the swimsuit model...
...learned this last fall when I took a semester off to study in Strasbourg, France. The Universite de Strasbourg has no varsity teams. There is no school newspaper, nor political journals, nor even a Model Congress, despite the presence of the European Parliament just a short bus ride from the city center...