Word: modell
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...York Presbyterian Healthcare System, product of the newly merged Columbia Presbyterian and New York-Cornell hospitals in Manhattan, is the very model of a modern medical establishment. Formed in January 1998, it brought together more than 25 health institutions and merged their operations to achieve economies of scale. The company has spent a cool $100 million just installing new computers in its facilities to get state-of-the-art performance--and cost-saving efficiencies. Has the network got its money's worth? That, says senior vice president Guy Scalzi, is not always easy to calculate...
...over typewriters, or as typewriters did over writing by hand. Says Gordon: "I cannot type or think any faster than I did with my first personal computer in 1983, although it contained only one-fiftieth of the memory and operated at one-thirtieth the speed of my present model...
...maybe you've already been caught, and now people want to know more. Who is this mysterious criminal? What drove this monster to such madness? And, inevitably, someone will pull out the yearbook. There you'll be: "Theodore Kazynski: Chess Club (Vice-President)." If you're going down, Model U.N. might as well come down with...
...Your children. Congratulations: it is fifteen years after graduation, and you've finally hit the big time: two boys and one girl. Your daughter just got her elementary school "yearbook" and suddenly wants to see yours. "Wow, Mom," she says, "you did so much stuff in college! What's Model U.N.?" And you say, "Um, uh, I'm not sure." "But it says here you were Vice-President!" You clear your throat and say, "Well, it was a long time ago." This is just too depressing to think about...
...left to spend with your classmates before they are scattered to the winds. Yearbooks are distributed, and everyone rushes to look at the pictures of themselves and all their friends. And the real vice-president opens the book and says, "Who are all these losers pretending to be in Model...