Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy is so paralyzed by political rivalries that its national debt is equal to its gross domestic product (vs. only 50% for the U.S.); whose debt problem is so out of hand that interest payments alone amount to 8% of GDP. Compared with this, the U.S. seems almost a model of fiscal probity...
...nervous not only because I had just scored my first goal, but also because I felt like I would have to live up to this model for four years," she adds...
...picture showed the snowbanks piled around the car. Every farmer with a crazy scheme to kill the swarms of grasshoppers that came with the drought got his ear. On a scorching day he watched one farmer race around his pasture with a scoop fixed on the front of a Model A. The man dumped the collected hoppers in a pile, sprayed oil on them and triumphantly set them ablaze. Father, knowing the futility of the effort, still murmured his appreciation of such energy and ingenuity, wrote the facts down in his little notebook. Story printed with picture...
...setting up Special Economic Zones inside China, Jiang referred economic questions to Vice Premier Yao Yilin, an advocate of the strong central planning that stunted the country's development before Deng came to power. Later in the week, Jiang gave a major anniversary address to top party leaders, model workers and soldiers that was larded with phrases from China's Stalinist past. "Failure to stick to the socialist road, while using the blood and sweat of laborers to fatten the capitalist class, will plunge most of the Chinese people into extreme poverty once again," he warned. Referring to sanctions imposed...
Delaney then asked a group of doctors to design a protocol, or test model, based on an FDA trial for a similar drug called Ricin Toxin. Delaney says several FDA and National Institutes of Health officials in Washington were told of Project Inform's proposed trial, which was planned for patients in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York City. "At no time did anyone tell us to stop," he says. An FDA spokesman in Washington claims officials did not hear about the clandestine trials until well after they began...