Word: modeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mayors came to power with lavish promises and high hopes of curing unemployment, housing shortages and a host of other blights that bedevil Italian urban centers. A model government in Bologna, successfully run by Communists since 1945, had inspired millions of voters to believe that the Communists were brilliant city managers. Riding the wave of that single reputation, the party hoped to produce showpiece regimes that would help catapult the Communists to national power by the sheer force of local example...
Bunker Hunt, as friends call him, is one of ten children of Texas Oil Billionaire H.L. Hunt. Bunker inherited millions and a penchant for controversy from his father, who before his death in 1974 promoted far-right political causes and crawling as an exercise. The family could be a model for the Swings on TV's Dallas. Bunker leads the six children from his father's first marriage in business deals and feuds with the four children of the patriarch's second family...
...model movie boss
...sunset with John Wayne. As she recalls, "I wasn't interested in being an actress at first, but when I walked onto that set, I started to become obsessed with film." Now the magnificent obsession has led to a new job in which the former actress and model will continue to face tough hombres. Last week Lansing, 35, was named president of production at 20th Century-Fox Pictures, putting her in charge of the development and management of the company's feature films...
...year-old women and a 26-year-old he thought of firing a couple of months ago? Not much I would say. But during the vacation period, when everybody else in their group was away, these three women assembled three very complicated machines of an unusual model and delivered them on time--even though they had to order new parts for it, as they were sent parts for another model. They were challenged, they met the challenge and now they know that they can do things that nobody really trusted them with...