Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Most experts call the model extremely easy to operate ("user friendly"), very well-priced, and highly powerful...
...Macintosh may presage a revolution in personal computing. But like all major innovations, it also entails a high risk for failure. Apple suffered big losses from its first revolutionary model, the $10,000 Lisa. In this, the second round, it has bounced back with a machine only a fourth the cost of Lisa and with almost as much versatility...
...Bowers and Pierce point out, because death is the supreme form of punishment, reserved for those crimes which most provoke in people, abhorrence and anger, it is also the punishment most subject to "deeply rooted passions and prejudices that will cause its application to depart from the retributive justice model...
...invasion of Lebanon in June 1982, the Syrian army lost more than 390 tanks, including 34 of the modern T-72s. The Syrian performance in the air was no better. Flying U.S.-built F-15s and F-16s, Israeli pilots downed 96 Soviet-built jets; one-fifth were newer-model MiG-25s and MiG-23s. Israeli pilots also wiped out 23 batteries of Soviet-built surface-to-air missiles. The official Soviet press dismissed the reports as CIA disinformation, but the Kremlin took them seriously enough and quickly dispatched several high-level military delegations to survey the destruction...
...most countries, believers in the Baha'i faith are looked upon as model citizens. Their religion places great stress on industriousness, peacefulness and obedience to the law. In Iran, however, Baha'is are not only unwanted but actively persecuted. Since the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini came to power in 1979, Iran's 300,000 Baha'is have suffered a reign of terror in the land where their faith was born. In the latest of many protests, the State Department's annual human rights report stated last week that believers "suffer from imprisonment, torture and execution...