Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...said to have talked by telephone with Kohl and British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher. These consultations were so fruitful that when the President announced his decision last week, the British, German and Italian governments all claimed partial credit for prompting it. Said one British official: "It was a model exercise of how these things should be done...
...instant euphoria. My problems drained away." Before that night in June 1980, Tarver, 35, had often posed as a coke buyer. He was an ambitious, model police officer, a survivor of 25 shootouts. He was Houston's 1978 Officer of the Year. But he had always glibly talked his way out of testing the merchandise, insisting that the coke was too expensive to waste in a tryout. Undercover agents avoid such tests because they are against the law-and because there is no way to tell what suspicious dealers may have mixed into the drugs. This time, however...
Ironically the image of Asians as a "model minority" who are unusually well assimilated may prove damaging Paul F. Hsich '84 AAA co-president said yesterday. This image may create unrealistically high expectations concerning Asian Americans and even foster some resentment toward them, he added...
While in office, Manley experimented with what he calls a "third path" in the Caribbean. The political setup of the region gives a government two basic choices: the "Puerto Rican" model with virtually complete economic dependence on the United States and the Cuban example of reliance on Soviet support. Manley sought to place Jamaica somewhere between these two poles. He and the PNP set out to develop a mixed economy with an emphasis on socialist techniques within the framework of Jamaica's democratic political system Meanwhile, he pursued a vigorous foreign policy in concert with the burgeoning non alignment movement...
...anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that you can do good or do bad-but everybody dies...