Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...central problem with the Kennedy Administration. He feared that it deliberately, almost scornfully, detached pragmatic considerations from a larger moral context. To discuss the morality of actions was evidence of softness, and intellectuals with power in their hands cannot bear to be thought soft. Everyone carried the Munich model around in his head. One talked in laconic codes, a masculine shorthand; one did not, like Adlai Stevenson, deliver fluty soliloquies about the morality of an act. After the Bay of Pigs, Bowles wrote: "The Cuban fiasco demonstrates how far astray a man as brilliant and well-intentioned as President Kennedy...
...Says Harvard Political Scientist Richard Neustadt: "The Administration set a new standard of prudence in dealing with the Soviet Union. The standard of prudence, the hard thought given about the crisis as the Soviets would see it, thus giving our opponent as much room as possible-these were a model of presidential conduct...
Nissan introduced an NX-21 model, which it calls the car for the "1990s and the beginning of the 21st century." The sleek sedan has a ceramic gas-turbine engine that is controlled by optical fibers rather than wiring. Nissan's Research Vehicle II, whose wheels, windshield and windows are all made of plastic, runs on methanol fuel that is stored in a plastic tank. The car's automatic cruise control measures the distance to the vehicle in front by radar and microwave, warns the driver if the car gets too close and decelerates if the person fails...
...trade unbalance between the two countries, the undervalued yen, and tax advantages they claim the Japanese enjoy. General Motors' reaction was more muted, since it has its own Japanese strategy. GM next year plans to begin importing small Japanese cars, and last week it unveiled a model of a subcompact to compete with Japanese imports in the late 1980s. -By Charles L. Martin. Reported by Edwin M. Reingold/Tokyo
...scholar who did hi graduate work at Harvard under Nobel laureate and Higgins Professor of Biology Emeritus George Wald, Dowling runs a lab of some 15 researchers and is particularly interested in examining the retins of the eye as the "model of the brain...