Word: modelling
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Rank-and-file Social Democrats will gather in Bern in February to ratify their leaders' decision to leave the coalition. The outcome of the vote is not certain. Even if the party goes into opposition, Switzerland will no doubt remain a model of economic and political stability. But for Swiss men the experience may serve as a warning that it takes more than a magic formula to preserve harmony at home...
Experts in both countries are studying the American experience in coping with ethnic strains. "The U.S. model is important because the country has traditionally had a large immigrant population," says Georgina Dufoix, France's Secretary of State for Families and Immigrants. "One thing that has interested me most is the effort to see that there are always blacks in [responsible positions] in order to give the black population an image of itself and its role in American society." Says Britain's Boateng: "America still has deep-rooted racism, but at least there has been a recognition of that...
...Toyota. Even at home it has only a 19% share of the market, compared with Ford's 29%. To help cope with its giant competitors, the British firm has allied with Japan's Honda. The two companies jointly manufacture the perky Triumph Acclaim and are developing another model, code-named XX, that will be introduced...
...call in a management firm to locate some 48 engineering groups in the U.S. It found a one-man operation in Louisville, apparently there because that was where the engineer preferred to live. The company had five finance departments, each with its own legal and personnel offices, three model shops and three mechanical-engineering units. Three or four sections worked on the same project, independent of each other. Since there was no standard pay scale, salaries and bonuses were dispensed as largesse...
Voluntary superschools become the model for the future...