Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...federal courts involved fines but no imprisonment and only 20% were for jail terms of two years or more. One reason: many judges feel that the mobsters' crimes, except the killings of each other, are nonviolent and thus less serious than, say, mugging. When jailed, mobsters are generally model prisoners and, with their high-priced legal help, win paroles more easily than the average convict...
...Asmara, the Eritrean provincial capital: those of Italy, France, Belgium, Britain and Sudan, as well as the U.S. Evidently Mengistu did not want nonsympathetic foreigners in a position to observe the latest phase of his drive against the rebels-an advance by thousands of civilian militiamen equipped with old-model rifles...
...Olds less mileage deductions comes to, say, $7,000, the buyer can give it back and get a new $7,000 Olds (this time fitted with an Oldsmobile engine). If every buyer accepts that offer, GM would have to take back 128,000 cars, or 3.7% of its 1977-model production to date. Buyers who do not want to bother exchanging cars can have their warranties on the engine and drive train extended from the original twelve months or 12,000 miles to 36 months or 36,000 miles...
...Generis. The incident should awaken consumers to an underappreciated fact of auto-buying life: though manufacturers try hard to tout each car model as unique, autos are actually highly standardized products with many interchangeable parts. Ford and Lincoln cars made by Ford Motor Co. share the same engines, as do Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler cars made by Chrysler Corp. Other automakers have escaped so far the trouble GM has landed in because their advertising has not given consumers quite as strong an impression that each car is sui generis as GM's ads have...
That ingredient can be found throughout Hermit of Peking, a model of historical detective work. The unfailingly literate sleuth is Hugh Trevor-Roper, author of The Last Days of Hitler and The Rise of Christian Europe, who has ventured far from his customary turf. In 1973, Trevor-Roper came upon two volumes of unpublished memoirs by Sir Edmund. The work appeared so outrageous, so incongruent with the accepted character of the author-it chronicled, in obscene detail, his amours with Chinese eunuchs and such European celebrities as Poet Paul Verlaine -that Trevor-Roper felt compelled to investigate the Backhouse background...