Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Solomon's shooting ended quickly. Typically, the rifle model he used can fire about a dozen rounds without reloading, and students say he fired about that many shots. They discovered evidence in the boy's bedroom showing he had contemplated the devastation: printouts of bomb recipes, notes on where to plant explosives at the school and rantings about his despair. Solomon wounded six students in all, only one seriously: sophomore Stephanie Laster, who had just stood up from a cafeteria table where she was chatting with a teacher and a girlfriend about a missionary trip she was planning for next...
...Those standards [to which Ward agreed] were pretty much the strongest stuff that was passed in the country, and is being used as a model for other universities," says Erik J. Brakken, a MASC member who graduated from the UW this month...
...Chrysler culture that evolved in the '90s--a creative collection of industry renegades held in check by Eaton--was spectacularly unsuited for this European model of management. Eaton shaped a team of hotshots led by product wizards Bob Lutz and Francois Castaing. In addition to inventing the minivan and sport-utility vehicle, categories that are such profit machines today, Chrysler's designers proved with models like the Viper and the Prowler that cars don't have to be boring...
...fast: any explicit instruction in the Ten Commandments would alarm guardians of the church-state wall. And in any case, they would have to be translated into modern educationese: Thou shalt model caring behaviors in interactive relationships with thy peer group. In the public schools, where any kind of commandment might be deemed unduly judgmental, character ed revolves around pillars or building blocks of character--universally accepted values bleached of any sectarian contamination. And they are transmitted by the familiar methods beloved of today's pedagogues: posters and banners, role playing and sharing, multi-culti storytelling and words...
Developers have already finished a model forthe portal pages, but it currently runs slowerthan ultimately desired, Martin said...