Word: modelling
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...coaches and athletes too often view the student press as a potential booster club and not as reporters trying to be objective. There is some bad, cheerleading reporting on campus, but there can also be some excellent, unbiased writing. Athletes and coaches should realize that the latter is the model student journalists correctly aspire to, and respect that...
...down in Kampuchea and intimidating other neighbors with its bloated military power. So the Kremlin's Deputy Foreign Minister for Asia, Igor Rogochev, another polished, new-breed diplomat, has been putting out quiet but unmistakable signals to officials in Hanoi that the Soviet withdrawal from Afghanistan might provide a "model" for the Vietnamese to follow in Kampuchea...
...godsend. The 60 or so blond, blue-eyed settlers of Colonia Dignidad (Dignity Colony) quickly set to work constructing what they called an "educational and benefactory society" on the site of an old ranch near Parral, 250 miles south of Santiago. Before long the newcomers had built a model community that offered many of the area's 20,000 residents access to employment, trade, free hospital services, an elementary school and, eventually, even a European-style restaurant on the nearby highway...
Cambridge's voluntary desegration program, similar to the "magnet schools" system used in several large cities, was recently singled out for praise by Secretary of Education William Bennett. The program, which offers students a "controlled choice" among various programs, has provided a model for other urban school districts...
...presented in such rich detail. The book tells, for example, what IBM went through in 1960 when it sought permission to make computers in Japan. The company had to follow the government's guidelines on the number and type of machines produced and get approval before introducing any new model...