Word: modelling
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...other improvements in the technology are on the horizon. The current heart, which weighs three-quarters of a pound, is too large to fit in most women's smaller chest cavities; its successor, the Jarvik-8, will ultimately be available in more than one size, including a streamlined model for people with small frames...
Humana prepared for its first artificial implant with a promotion campaign as elaborate as one that General Motors might use for launching a new model. Before the Schroeder operation, Humana public relations specialists consulted with officials at the University of Utah on the press interest that might be expected. The company rented space for a press headquarters in the Commonwealth Convention Center in downtown Louisville and produced seven informational videotapes about the operation...
DIED. Sylvan N. Goldman, 86, inventor of the shopping cart and multimillionaire philanthropist whose fortune was estimated last year by Forbes magazine to be $200 million; in Oklahoma City. Supermarket Owner Goldman built the first shopping-cart prototype in the mid-1930s using a folding chair as a model. The idea, which he patented and eventually marketed, came to him while he watched women using then standard market baskets. Said he: "They had a tendency to stop shopping when the baskets became too full or too heavy...
...such undiplomatic behavior was all that could be expected from a bunch of high school kids up for the weekend at the 29th annual Harvard Model United Nations, and under the supervision of undergraduates...
...comeback when it unlocked Fascist prisons. Kidnaping is a cottage industry, monks fake relics, and omertà, the code of silence, is so pervasive that strangers often cannot get directions to their hotels. Casting a large shadow over all this is Puzo's Don Croce Malo, a model of the fatal charm and intricate cunning of a successful mafioso...