Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computers are twice as powerful as the Macintosh, Apple's previous top-of-the-line model. MacPluses are selling as well as the Macintoshes even though they've only been available since late February, computer officials said...
...seems the drama of worsening relations among minority groups is to be played out again--with one actor exchanged for another. When Time magazine portrays Asian-Americans as a model minority, it sows the seeds for needless conflict between Blacks and Asian-Americans--groups that might otherwise be united...
...model minority theory says that Asian-Americans have succeeded by adopting the "correct" values, the values of the work ethic. Conversely, Black failure to adopt these values has resulted in their socio-economic problems...
Both the affirmative action and model minority arguments pit minority groups against each other on a scale of legitimacy. In the words of Harvard Professor Glenn C. Loury, these arguments "require us to compare degrees of suffering and extents of moral outrage as experienced internally, subjectively, by different peoples." In Loury's view, it is Blacks who compare the suffering of minority groups when they respond to their critics by saying "you didn't suffer...
...decline, though, has brought higher costs for foreign goods and overseas vacations. Sony recently raised prices by 5% on its entire line of color television sets because of the falling dollar. A 19-in., remote-control model, for example, now costs $630, vs. $600 in December. Prices of Japanese cars and machine tools have also risen by 5% since December. Last week the American subsidiary of West Germany's Mercedes-Benz added 5.8% to the sticker price of its autos. Pouilly-Fuisse, a popular white burgundy that sold in stores for about $12 in 1985, now goes for as much...