Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...President's tax-reform bill illustrates why the bill is known in the law firms and lobbying shops of K Street as the "Lobbyists' Full Employment Act." The 408-page proposal first drafted by the Treasury Department 16 months ago, known as Treasury I, was called a model of simplicity and fairness. It would have swept the tax code virtually clean of loopholes for the few in order to cut tax rates sharply for the many. But the 1,363-page tax bill sent by the House to the Senate last December is so riddled with exemptions and exceptions that...
...Harvard tried to do the right thing, though it certainly wasn't a model of effective conflict resolution--it dragged on way too long," Skocpol says...
Most of us have gotten the things we've worked for--we got in here, right? So, we think, the revolution is over. Feminism is last decade's model. Now let's talk about hunger. We can make jokes about dykes with hairy legs again. We're all equal--no feminists needed here...
There is certainly more to Simon's adolescence than this risky business. She studies literature at Hunter College, sells lipsticks at Woolworth, pastes fake diamonds into junk jewelry, and sits as a designer's model. But in posing for her own self-portrait, Simon has found a true vocation. Together, Bronx Primitive and A Wider World qualify as a minor American classic...
...inner-city high school whose team has the juvenile authorities beaten by no more than half a step. Can she weld them into a fighting unit? Can their victories create a new school spirit at Central? Can she at the same time provide a role model for struggling feminists everywhere...