Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Ndiaye has chaired a Phillips Brooks House service program for two years and has participated in junior varsity and intramural soccer. He was also a delegate to Harvard's Model United Nations where he was elected best delegate for his country's region. Mamboleo is running track and is a member of the International Relations Council, which teaches high school students about international relations. Okhwatenie is teaching a special class for the East African Folk Song Troupe...
...wonderful person and deserves it so much," teammate Jenny Holleran said. "I've never had a better role model in conduct, play and attitude," Holleran said...
...midsize data- processing computers, the $15,000-to-$200,000 machines used by Big Business and Government. While IBM is still the biggest in the $18 billion market, with a 17% share, Massachusetts-based Digital Equipment (fiscal 1987 revenues: $9.4 billion) has moved up swiftly with its VAX model by selling machines twice as fast as IBM's at about half the cost. Hoping to retaliate, IBM developed a minimainframe computer, the file cabinet-size 9370, which was dubbed the "VAX killer," a rare signal of Big Blue's anxiety about a smaller competitor. But IBM's new machine...
...Democratic quartet leading the field in Iowa shares one characteristic: an admirable ability to endure adversity. Babbitt, for example, is almost a model of humor and grace in the face of an indifferent electorate. And Simon survived a rocky start-up phase in mid-1987 when his campaign was derided as little more than an ego trip to nowhere. Like Dole, his initial campaign organization was a study in amateurish chaos, but Simon also belatedly displayed the grit necessary to move aside longtime friends in favor of political professionals...
...many of his corporate victims cringe, especially the many who lost their jobs when companies were restructured as a result. Yet Icahn's headquarters is no temple to fast money, like the vaulted office of the reptilian Gordon Gekko in the movie Wall Street. Instead, it serves as a model for the unglamorous way he thinks business should be conducted. The only frill in his office is a Persian rug. Icahn manages his frenetic investment ventures with a staff of just eight, who scurry about their nondescript cluster of offices with no pretensions of power, eat lunch at their desks...