Word: modelling
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Despite professions of confidence from airlines, the A320 is likely to be watched with special scrutiny until it can establish a long-running safety record. Last week's crash was preceded by several glitches involving the new model. The first A320 to be delivered to Air France suffered a failure in four of its five electrical circuits in March when a transformer failed just before takeoff on a demonstration run over Paris with then Premier Jacques Chirac on board. Air France says a backup system immediately took over and there was never any danger to passengers or the plane...
...program can become the model for otherinstitutions to follow, Black said, adding that ifan increase in institutions using the programoccurs, then it will produce siginificant results...
...Hallanan, who would like to start her own magazine someday, the stories she heard will serve as guidance about what to do -- and what not to do. But then Hallanan also has a role model closer to home: her mother has owned a real estate firm since 1984. "Many of those I spoke with saw starting a business as an outgrowth of the balancing act that so many of them perform at home, from budgeting the grocery list to planning family vacations," she says. "Being an entrepreneur and a woman can be a 36-hour...
...statement can help other denominations trying to reach the elusive compromise that will appease both sides. "They said it couldn't be done; it would blow us out of the water," says Gloria Marshall, who chaired the American Baptist task force that produced the compromise. "Now it's a model for other denominations on how to work together...
...Jessica Savitch? Millions of TV viewers knew her as the glamorous and authoritative NBC News anchor who was a role model for scores of aspiring women journalists. To her colleagues on the set, however, she was an anorexic, acne-scarred prima donna who would throw tantrums over the slightest inconvenience or reject a glass of water because it was too warm. And to those who claimed to know her best, she was a vivacious and vulnerable woman who became so debilitated by insecurity and drug abuse that she could barely function without a nursemaid. When Savitch's end finally came...