Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Steven G. Kalar '88, U.N. enthusiast and long-time participant in student Model U.N. sessions, said he thought the poor showing did not reflect the pressures of reading period, but rather the cynicism and lack of respect most people feel towards...
...generation of Americans called yuppies, the young urban professionals (aged roughly from the mid-20s to the late 30s) who are supplying much of the bright entrepreneurial energy driving the American economy. In the late '70s, Japan's imitative wizardry and its mysterious cultural-economic consensus were the international model to copy. Today the model, the source of envy around the world, is the freewheeling private initiative of the U.S. Much of the improvisational magic, especially in the booming high-tech industries, comes from the yuppies...
...housing units. Washington is putting up $200,000 to try his oasis system in another city, possibly Houston. But to Lindsey, who now has a $52,000 salary and no beard or ponytail, the big danger is that Government still tends to favor what he calls a failure model, imposing expensive programs on the poor and then blaming them for the predictable problems. "Public housing must be a privilege," Lindsey sums up. "You don't get in just because you're poor. You get in because you're poor and willing to accept responsibility...
Wherever Ueberroth spotted security forces, he sought them out to shake hands. There were 29 different police forces involved in the Los Angeles Games, and some believe the security there will rank for years as a model. The key, to Ueberroth, was attitude more than equipment. "The law-enforcement people were so upbeat," he explains, "and that affected everyone." Ueberroth himself had a few scares. One night four men carrying sawed-off | shotguns leaped over the security fence around his house but were caught; their objective was never clear. On another occasion two of Ueberroth's dogs died from poisoned...
...indeed a small (1,500 sq. ft.), compact cottage. Clever manipulation of the two-level interior spaces, however, makes it look and feel much larger. Designed by Woodstock, N.Y., Architect Lester Walker, the house is made entirely of wood, with cedar bevel siding and bright blue trim. This model home was sponsored by the American Wood Council and House Beautiful magazine...