Word: system
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Willie hopes to focus the institute on his model of "controlled choice" in school desegregation, an innovative system in which families are allowed greater latitude in choosing the schools which their children will attend. Traditional school desegregation plans rely on mandatory student assignment to achieve racial balance...
...hardworking woman in what is still a male-dominated star system, Karan is instantly simpatico to many of her customers. When she makes appearances at department stores, Karan acts like a wise older sister dispensing fashion tips and helping customers assemble her clothes into outfits. Says Karan, as she twirls her oversize black eyeglasses: "I am accessible. I see myself as a person who stays up all night and worries about her daughter ((Gaby, 15)) and her husband, and would like to get the carpeting ordered...
...which provides a lot of volume but requires cast-iron lips to play. (Benny Goodman once borrowed Woody's clarinet for a sit-in and had to shave the reed down with a kitchen knife before he could get a toot out of it.) Second, by playing an Albert System clarinet -- an antiquated, wide-bore instrument based on a virtually obsolete fingering method. Why the Albert System? "Because all the guys I liked played the Albert," says Woody...
Some nations, notably West Germany, are considering a new bookkeeping system to take account of the environmental costs of economic production. Present measures of gross national product were developed in the 1930s, when natural resources seemed infinite. In the Philippines today, renegade coastal villagers harvest fish by dynamiting tropical reefs. Under current accounting methods, this practice shows up as contributing to the GNP, with no adjustment for the depletion of the fisheries that results from the destruction of the reefs...
...shortsightedness, writ large, afflicts the entire globe. This year the U.N. Statistical Commission will undertake a periodic 20-year review of the way it monitors the world economy. The World Resources Institute, a Washington-based think tank, is urging the U.S. to press the commission to adopt a new system to take account of activities that harm the environment and thus to encourage policies that will save it. The opportunity will not arise again until the year 2010. By then, according to nature's own accounting, mankind may be environmentally bankrupt...