Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...most important of last week's rulings involved an ordinance passed by the city council of Akron, Ohio, which has served as a national model for antiabortion legislation. Its requirement that abortions after the first three months, or trimester, of a pregnancy be performed in a hospital seemed to conform to the Roe vs. Wade ruling that the state can make regulations that are "reasonably related" to the health of the woman after the first trimester. But the court, citing advances in medical technology, ruled that the abortion method known as dilatation and evacuation "may be performed safely...
Shultz said the U.S. would continue to strive for "military balance," defend itself and its allies, and support "those who have a positive alternative to the Soviet model" in politically turbulent areas like El Salvador. "At the same time," he added, "we will respect legitimate Soviet security interests and are ready to negotiate equitable solutions to outstanding political problems...
Hungary's economic reforms are tolerated but not widely emulated in Eastern Europe. Fekete noted that Leonid Brezhnev told the last Soviet Party Congress in 1981 that Hungarian agricultural policy should be seen as a model for other Communist countries. Despite that, few have adopted the Hungarian program. When asked why, Banker Fekete replied simply, "Vanity and pride...
...model, developed in the 1950s and 1960s has become the basis for modern portfolio theory. Lintner's theories, although not used in actual practice by Wall St. investment firms, had a "tremendous impact on people's thinking," said Robert Diefenbach, executive vice president of U.S. & Foreign Securities...
...broaden the applications of his capital market theory research. His most recent work, for example, examined the consequences when investors do not act in their best interest or are not able to make certain types of investments. His last published work analyzed how well the capital asset pricing model fit the real world...