Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...inducing about a trade dispute over bananas. You've seen it in the papers in headlines like BANANA SPLIT or GOING BANANAS. But Clark Davis isn't laughing. One day the quality-assurance engineer was contentedly playing in the basement of his Wexford, Pa., home with his N-gauge model railroad--three lines spread over 36 sq. ft. of diorama, styled after turn-of-the-century Europe. The next day, Davis, 66, heard from his supplier of German-made Fleischman engines that not only could the price be doubling but the supplier's hobby shop might even...
...banana battle grows increasingly absurd as it threatens to spread to other food groups, from ham and cheese to wafers and waffles, and to such oddities as candles, cashmere sweaters and model trains. That's because the U.S. targeted for tariffs 17 European exports chosen to "gain the most leverage" over European protectionists. How? Mainly by targeting the British, French and Italians, who have pushed to restrict Latin bananas and to favor those grown in former European colonies, like Martinique and Cameroon...
...Model railroaders argued, among other things, that if their trains doubled in price, more kids would turn to lives of drugs and crime. Other train enthusiasts, including Davis, wrote letters: "I fail to see any relationship between model-railroad equipment and bananas." Trains got dropped...
...Department of English and AmericanLiterature and Language, which still maintainsstudent involvement via its Undergraduate SteeringCommittee, may serve as a model for otherdepartments...
...ROLE MODEL...