Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Hawking explained that the principle, along with the no-boundary condition, narrows the multiple cosmological scenarios, down to a model of the universe like...
...experienced several acts of homophobia (News, Oct. 1). As a resident of Mather House, I am ashamed and embarrassed. As a member of the Harvard community I am outraged. These acts serve as a cold reminder of the narrow-mindedness and intolerance that exists even this school, a supposed model for other colleges to emulate...
...resigned to China's failings. Peiji has indigestion from Taiwan's success. Tell their family story, and you also start to tell the story of China over the past 50 years, with all its contradictions, betrayals and unburied ghosts. Confucian thought has always seen the family as a model of the state. Obedience to the father was a model for loyalty to the Emperor. In his quest to create a new China, Mao tried to destroy the family: children informed on parents, ancestral graves were desecrated, meals were eaten in work groups, not at home. But the family survived...
...stores. The traditional Heilig customer is lower-middle income and lives in a small town--not a big online demographic. Today Heilig has a modest informational website, where customers can print coupons and find stores but not shop. "We're not certain that anyone has got a profitable business model yet in this industry, and so we're taking a wait-and-see attitude," explains Brian Hopping, a Heilig spokesman...
...April, numerous FORTUNE 500 firms, from Xerox to Kodak, have already made the big pension switch--moving millions of employees from the traditional system, which rewards longevity and piles up cash in a worker's last years of service, to more flexible, so-called cash-balance plans. The new model lets workers build up their nest eggs at a steadier pace and take the balance from job to job. It is more consistent with today's career cycle. But when IBM announced its conversion in May, thousands of middle-aged IBM workers, hardly known for their activism, began screaming that...