Word: modelling
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...during these last four years not an inch of territory has been lost to the Communists," he declares. Last week he presided over a White House ceremony celebrating the first anniversary of the U.S. invasion of Grenada. On a swing through California, he stood in front of a production model of the B-l bomber at the Rockwell International plant in Palmdale and reminded workers there that the last Administration had tried to kill the plane. Said Reagan: "Mondale has made a career out of weakening America's armed forces...
...comment on whether Project Whitecloud, first launched in 1976, is a continuing operation. As it turns out, the envelope designer was no great intelligence sleuth. Robert Rank of Union City, N.J., a supervisor for the New York City social-services department and freelance souvenir maker, believes he found the model for his envelope sketch and the description of Whitecloud in a 1976 issue of Aviation Week & Space Technology...
...course, no ordinary refrigerator. The 3-cu.-ft. model used aboard the Navy's P-3 Orion antisubmarine plane had to operate at high altitudes and in turbulent weather, resist vibrations and not affect the aircraft's sensitive electronic gear. Even so, it hardly seemed worth the price the Navy paid...
...most respects, Harkin is the model liberal: pro-choice, strongly supportive of Carter's human rights policies, critical of the Pentagon's "gold-plated tinkertoys", and concerned about the budget deficit. He was first elected to represent one of Iowa's most conservative districts in the 1974 Watergate sweep, and held on to its loyalties with unstinting constituent service and passionate defense of agricultural interests...
Tall, soft-spoken and described by friends as courteous and modest, Stone collects books and has more than 10,000 volumes. But his deepest interest remains organizing numbers. Says Terence Barker, Stone's successor as head of the Cambridge Growth Project, which has developed a model of the British economy: "He is passionately enthusiastic about economic statistics. All his professional life has been devoted to the measurement of income and wealth, and he is very keen on getting it systematized." Adds George Jaszi, director of the U.S. Commerce Department's Bureau of Economic Analysis: "There is a tremendous...