Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there is a model city of racial progress in the U.S., Detroit should be it. All the surface signs are upbeat. Since 1974, Detroit has had a black mayor, Coleman Young, whose aggressive leadership is respected nationally and has given him influence in Washington. Six of the nine members of the city council are black, including its president. So is Chief of Police William Hart, as well as Superintendant of Schools Arthur Jefferson and a majority of the county supervisors...
...must strive to be respected rather than liked. Instead of using diplomatic pressure to promote civil liberties, he believes, the U.S. should advertise its own prosperity. He says he would urge the Voice of America and other media to propagandize "unapologetically" on behalf of "American capitalism as a model for economic development." Such boosterism might well generate more resentment than respect in the poorer nations of the world...
Next González executed an equally deft pass of the cape. As millions of Spaniards waited at their ra dios, González soberly proceeded to lay out his party's program of government. The shocker: it was hardly socialist at all. Using West Germany as his model, González explained his main thrusts: a mixed economy with little nationalization, a firm commitment to join the European Economic Community and greater personal freedom for all Spaniards. Groused Communist Leader Santiago Carrillo: "This is not a program of the left." He was correct. In one stroke, Gonz...
...which is not expected to roll off assembly lines before 1988, is a modified version of the company's 50 m.p.g. Mini Metro model being introduced this summer. The droop nose helps save gas by reducing aerodynamic drag, but the real secret behind the experimental ECV lies underneath-a novel three-cylinder engine. The ECV body, about the size of a Ford Pinto, is bantam weight. Bereft of bumpers and stripped of all interior furnishings except for the drivers seat, the test car tips the scales at 1,320 lbs. The body is constructed largely of lightweight aluminum...
...Harvard Corporation, coined the over-used phrase, but the K-School leadership has taken it to heart with a fervent earnestness. The blueprints for success lie only a few hundred yards away on the other side of the Charles, and the K-Schoolers are determined to follow their model as soon, and as well, as possible...