Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...despite the fact that only half have unemployment compensation. The strike, which workers say could last for another month, will serve as a test of union strength, and the results could indicate the future credibility of unions as a viable bargaining tool for workers. Pittsburgh serves as a good model for the movement as a whole because the problems plaguing American labor in general also apply to the United Steelworkers union. Union membership has declined by one half in the last five years. Add this to the depressed American steel industry and you've got a pretty low-spirted bunch...
...more relaxed. Apparently he has gotten over the death of his family (which was killed by bikers in the original Mad Max) and has become the model of well adjustment for the post-nuclear generation...
...artisan mixing a bath of bamboo pulp magically raises a net-like sheet and suddenly has produced a single sheet of fresh white paper. An architect carves, without pattern, small pieces of wood which lock together without adhesive to form the outline of a model of elaborate Chinese architecture. A kite-maker chats animatedly with a Chinese friend about the strange American visitors she has experienced that day; all the while her hands file meticulously at the thin strips of wood which will flow in symmetric perfection as the body of vividly colored kites...
Only one of the 93 graduates of my high school came to Harvard with me, but surprisingly, I knew quite a few of my classmates by the time September rolled around. I had met one of my other roommates, Ghary, and several other classmates at the Harvard model U.N. my senior year. I spent the summer after high school in Israel and met four of my future classmates there...
...brand karaoke along to gigs at New York bar mitzvahs and parties. Properly lubricated, adults like to giggle through a moonstruck verse or two of a ballad. "It's the only way to go," says Cathy Ruggieri, 40, a hair stylist in Stony Brook, N.Y., who uses her $600 model at home and at her salon. "It makes you sound so good. I wasn't that outgoing before...