Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Walsh meticulously outlined the Government's case with the help of flow charts and excerpts from recorded conversations printed on large posters. The defendant followed each statement intently, occasionally running a restless hand through his mane of silver hair. In the front row, his wife Cristina, actress and model, shook her head in mute exasperation at the prosecutor's charges...
...charged with rape, but no action was taken when he adamantly denied the charge. In 1981 he was placed under investigation for corruption, but friendly officials refused to pursue the inquiry. The same thing happened two years later. Last year, after party leaders elected Duan a "model worker," he was caught raping another woman. Still nothing happened. Only when Peking's investigators discovered he had defrauded the state of more than $13 million, was Duan finally arrested...
...giving him the opportunity to launch his own business and improve his family's status, he joined the Communist Party last year. On the wall of his waiting room, he proudly displays the evidence of his success: a framed certificate of his designation by provincial authorities as a "model worker" and a carefully mounted photo of himself with hundreds of other young Chinese who attended a party meeting in Peking last summer. In the picture, Bai is seated near General Secretary Hu Yaobang. Says Bai: "I expressed thanks to Hu Yaobang on behalf of the people of the province...
...tour with her mother and a nimble au pair, also forced Hynde to "tame down. Suddenly, you can't imagine sitting down and smoking a pack of fags or drinking whisky. Being a mother's a real awakening." Hynde is still far from being the sort of model of civic rectitude that the folks back in her home town of Akron might approve. After a low-key, Midwestern small-town childhood, she took off for England, wild and a little desperate, at the age of 22, and plunged into the sort of bohemian life that, with suitable adjustments...
...students today may observe that the statue has a small mustache which French probably added since Hoar, the model, also...