Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Holding a 15-inch model of the A6, he defended the fighter as "one of the most capable aircraft in the world...
...Ivory Coast, a model of economic development and relative prosperity under President Felix Houphouët-Boigny, is now beset by a troubled economy and uncertainty about who will succeed...
...necessarily, says Law Professor John Wade of Vanderbilt University, who helped write the model statute on which the New York law is based. Unless the motorman was guilty of gross recklessness, Wade contends, no jury would blame him. "Even if there was some negligence on the part of the subway driver," he says, jurors would cut the award "down to practically nothing...
...game of name recognition is becoming a major industry in every field. First establish your base, as Congressman, actor, scientist, running back, swimsuit model, writer; then separate yourself from the ruck in a way that commands notice. Lee lacocca did it as a businessman selling Chryslers, so now we have what's-his-name who liked that razor so much he bought the company. Journalism loves expert opinions; an economist or an environmentalist no wiser than his colleagues can make it big if he has vast self-confidence and the gift of articulation. Politicians who become national figures must...
...rather than the adventuresome explorer, it is the meticulous instrument-maker who serves as Boorstin's model. His narrative is precise, detailed, and accurate, with only a few minor errors. This is only fitting, indeed, the theme of The Discoverers is "the conquest of common sense" by precise and accurate measurement...