Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ades gave way to resentful, at times bitter, comments. "The U.S. may be concerned about abortion," said Satpal Mittal, a delegate from India, where an estimated 15 million abortions are performed annually, "but it cannot impose its view on the free world." The U.S. attempt to advocate a capitalist model worldwide is unrealistic, some contended, because not all poor countries are capable of developing in the way the West's industrialized nations did. "Times are different, and governments have to take a positive role in all kinds of programs," said Mwai Kibaki, Kenya's Vice President. "Even...
Some 65 miles south of Nicaragua's border with Honduras, at a cluster of settlements known as Tasba Pri (Free Land), Sandinista officials hail what they describe as a model of revolutionary Indian development. Everything is new, from the tin-roofed wooden houses to the local schools and clinics. Equally new are the residents, some 8,500 Miskitos who were forcibly moved to the settlement two years ago from 42 villages near the Honduran border. A blanket of benign restrictions governs Tasba Pri; the residents are free to travel, for example, only after they apply for permission. Above...
Forget Sears, Roebuck. Nowadays Sears, Tiegs might be more appropriate. In 12 million American homes, the first image Sears customers are seeing as they flip through the new fall-winter catalog is the cover picture of Model Cheryl Tiegs, wearing a cardigan sweater and an autumn plaid skirt, her smiling face and long blond tresses beckoning potential buyers into the magic world of America's largest retailer. Sears has taken a fancy to Tiegs, embracing her in its catalog and TV commercials and identifying itself with her wholesome all-American looks. The chemistry has been sizzling. Just two years...
...performer. He even critiqued the inquiries. "That's a great question," he told a British journalist who asked him whether he was running for the money or rather, like Jesse Owens, to become a folk hero for mankind. "My objective," he answered forthrightly, "is to be the role model, not the rich...
Saudi Arabia has always considered itself the model of prudence and self-control among the 13 nations that make up the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. When one of the other members threatens the group's strength by producing too much crude oil or selling it at a discount, the Saudis are usually the first to scold. Thus Saudi Arabia has perplexed the global oil industry this summer by boosting its output by 1 million bbl. a day beyond the country's voluntary quota of 4.5 million bbl. The extra crude has aggravated the world's surplus...