Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security agents and protective apparatus as much as what Presidents and Prime Ministers do and say. No more yarns about "the sinister black briefcase" carrying nuclear codes, or the "android image" of the Secret Service, or how agents switch revolver style when they change clothes from casual (Smith & Wesson Model 10) to formal (Walther PPK), or the press "baying for names and quotes." Unfortunately, the prose that would result would be far more prosaic. The sense of pomp and ceremony and history would be sacrificed. But by taking refuge in an electronic cocoon, those who run the world might...
Industrious and ambitious, the Sikhs have turned Punjab, one of the few areas in which they form a majority, into a model of agricultural efficiency, thereby helping make India self-sufficient in wheat. Sikh politicians are demanding economic improvements from the central government, such as higher wheat prices and more investment in Punjab. Some Sikhs want a form of regional autonomy that would give to Punjab authority in all areas of state government except currency, railways, communications and defense. Others want the city of Chandigarh, which is also the capital of the neighboring Hindu state of Haryana, to be designated...
...lure the Indians back home, the Guatemalan government has announced plans to build a series of "model villages" that will provide housing, schools and health clinics. "We offer clear guarantees to those who desire to return," President Oscar Humberto Mejía Víctores declared at the inauguration of the first model village, Chacaj, last March. But no more than 300 refugees have accepted the offer. Most remain skeptical of the regime's intentions: they note that returning families must register with the army and answer questions about why they left and where they went...
...helped make much of the medical profession aware of both the compassion and the specialized approach needed to deal with the agony of pain. Twenty-three years ago he helped found the University of Washington Medical Center's Clinical Pain Service, in Seattle, which has be come a model for similar clinics across the country. Here, sufferers from chronic pain can be examined by medical specialists in a variety of fields, from orthopedics to psychiatry, in an attempt to isolate the often mysterious causes of a patient's constant agony...
...paper's editorial board, whose emotionally charged commentary reflected the tensions of the city's racially polarized politics; by her own hand (an overdose of pills), after bouts of depression brought on at least in part, friends said, by the strain of being a role model and by the furor resulting from an article she wrote for the Washington Post last summer titled "How Chicago Taught Me to Hate Whites," which prompted the city council to consider demanding an apology; in Chicago...