Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...total of 4.9 million autos, a 3% decline from 1985. In the past few weeks Ford has engineered a sharp sales upturn, thanks partly to the sudden popularity of its futuristically styled Taurus and Sable vehicles. But GM has a troublesome surplus of more than 1 million unsold 1986-model cars and trucks. In a bid to shrink its swollen inventory, GM late last week postponed the roll-out of its 1987 models, from Sept. 25 to Oct. 9, and announced some dramatic come-ons. The automaker will offer customers a choice of two new incentives: new-car loans...
...Acura model line is one of Honda's boldest gambits. Honda has tried to give the car an upscale image by insisting that dealers for the new model keep their showrooms several miles away from regular Honda outlets. The Acura Legend, a sedan slightly bigger and more powerful than the Mercedes-Benz 190, sells in the U.S. for $19,000, around $10,000 less than the Mercedes, and has % been greeted with rave notices by U.S. auto reviewers. The Legend's smaller, sportier cousin, the Integra, is priced...
...reorganization and modernization of the architecture program, begun before the GSD was founded and culminating in Gropius's not entirely successful "Bauhausization" of the curriculum, provided the model for teaching architecture in the post-war period. Even if one studied architecture somewhere other than Harvard, one still learned the principles Harvard taught, the way Harvard taught them...
Shattuck Professor of Government James Q. Wilson headed the group that developed the Core Curriculum in the 1970s. The program requires students to receive instruction in a variety of disciplines and is a model for schools across the nation...
...Incrementally yet relentlessly, Harvard today has become a national magnet, a model for imitation, and a target. Moreover, the trans-Atlantic orientation in 1936 has in 1986 become more widely international," said David Riesman '31, Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus...