Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...preparation for nationals, the women's team will commute to Cape Cod, where it can borrow the 420-model boats that will be raced at nationals...
There is nothing mysterious about Wetherell's business model: find promising Internet company, buy stake, fund growth, provide guidance, sell company; or take it public and pocket billions. (It's one that is also widely implemented on Sand Hill Road in Menlo Park, Calif.--the Main Street of venture capitalism.) But what has set Wetherell and CMGI apart has been his phenomenal success. His early investments in Lycos, Booklink, GeoCities, Critical Path and a slew of other Internet companies have established Wetherell as an uncanny picker of soon-to-be-ripe Internet fruit...
...stealing about $400 worth of electronic equipment. They entered a juvenile-court rehabilitation program that allowed them to clear their records by participating in community-service programs and an anger-management seminar. Last Feb. 3 both were allowed to finish the program early, having been such model participants. "Eric is a very bright young man who is likely to succeed in life," said the termination report on Harris. As for Klebold, he too was "intelligent enough to make any dream a reality, but he needs to understand hard work is part...
...professionals did not spot the warning signs, neither did the people who saw the boys every day. The owner of the pizza parlor where they worked says they were model employees. For all the talk of fierce racism, Harris was well liked back in Plattsburgh, where his best friends, according to the local Press-Republican, were black and Asian. As for the neo-Nazi Klebold, his great-grandfather was a prominent Jewish philanthropist back in Ohio...
Other jurisdictions, including Mendocino County, plan to follow Arcata's example, and a task force appointed by Bill Lockyer, California's new attorney general, is looking at Arcata as a possible statewide model. Although other communities might be less mellow about the idea, no dissenters showed up at public hearings when Arcata's city council--composed of two Green Party members, a Libertarian and two Democrats--approved Brown's ID system. That's to be expected, perhaps, in a town that has declared itself a "Nuclear Weapons Free Zone"; that in 1991 passed a resolution--albeit quickly rescinded--offering sanctuary...