Word: modelling
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Miller was hardly the model Government agent. Grossly overweight (close to 250 Ibs.), slovenly and inefficient, he was transferred three years ago from a local office in Riverside, Calif, to the FBI's counterintelligence division in Los Angeles, where he could be kept under closer supervision. His glaring personal problems should have alerted his superiors: on a $50,000 salary, he supported a wife and eight children, including a deaf son, and maintained a Los Angeles bungalow and an eleven-acre farm in San Diego County. Once suspended for selling Amway household goods out of the trunk...
...optimism is understandable. Buscetta's decision to break with the Mafia has given the police voluminous information and may encourage others to sing as well. It has also provided other would-be Mafia renegades with a model and given law enforcement a major psychological boost. Says Giuliani: "This is the type of work where you don't get many victories. It's enormously important as an example that someone at a very high level has broken his silence...
...impression had been exactly the reverse, that Italy had been stonewalling U.S. demands. "What we had here," he says, "was an opportunity to clear up differences where the blame for the past was about equal." U.S. and Italian authorities hope that the new extradition accord will serve as a model for agreements with other countries...
...BEGINNING of the film keeps feeding these false expectations. We witness a typical mad Monday at JFK: a kid nearly bleeds to death as he waits for the nurse, a school psychologist flips out, and most of the teachers are in absentia. Nolte, the model teacher, is too busy in bed to be in class, and a lingering topless view of his bedmate puts Teachers on its way to a well-deserved R rating...
...Community Development Block Grants, first enacted in 1974 with the support of President Gerald Ford, provide $3.5 billion each year for city developments and services which primarily benefit low- and moderate-income persons. CDBG replaced urban renewal and model cities programs to encourage greater local flexibility...