Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...While advising committees exist in the majority of departments, there are still several departments that retain the single-adviser model," the report reads. "Such a model concentrates considerable power and responsibility in the hands of one individual and is best avoided...
...This model of mutual exploitation undoubtedly represents decades of research and refinement. Just as today's advertisement campaigns casually capitalize on counter-culture-subsuming themes such as "revolution" to arrive at the most efficient means of marketability, so too the consulting firms and investment banks use today's employment patterns to arrive at the most efficient means of labor-profitability...
Whether or not affirmative action is on its way out for good is one debate. But no one will ever doubt the effect of a good image. Davis should take the ASUC's advice and make the Board of Regents a model in diversity to which the Universities it oversees can aspire...
...deeper issue, of course, is what the forests are for. A resource for timber and mining companies? A wilderness where people can hunt, fish or hike? Or an ecosystem supporting the web of life? Dombeck hopes a plan being developed by a committee of scientists will offer a model of multipurpose, sustainable forest management. But pushing that plan through Congress and finding a way to finance it may be jobs so big that even Paul Bunyan couldn't pull them...
Synthetic extensions have always been cheaper, but, coarse in texture and limited in style and color, they were less attractive. The new synthetics, however, are much improved and offer a whirligig of choice. Amekor, which supplies the line of extensions marketed by the model Beverly Johnson, saw its sales jump from $25 million five years ago to $100 million last year, in large part because of a synthetic line that offers 40 styles and 20 colors...