Word: modeling
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...nation in the modern world. In the 1960s the number of U.S. families grew at a greater rate than the population; 87% of Americans live in families that include both parents. While the divorce rate is rising, so is the rate of remarriage among divorced people. Thus, the nuclear model will undoubtedly remain the basic family structure in the U.S. But that does not mean that it will function as a healthy institution unless ways are found to strengthen its concept and spirit...
More serious is the argument that discipline and rigor are essential to the primary business of the military: preparing men to kill and to endure the personal danger of death. Nearly all the legendary armies of history have been harshly trained and regimented. The model is ancient Sparta, whose youths spent 23 years, including their wedding nights, in soldiers' barracks and could be fined merely for showing...
...good things can be done in the Cambridge Model Cities neighborhood and some of them are already beginning. The fundamental question becomes, "How far can we go?" This is the issue the Model Cities people should be talking about, and this is the crucially important decision for the future-not a rhetorical slogan that tries to capitalize on nonexistent local autonomy...
...unfair and unethical to use the people of the model neighborhood as pawns in the clash of ideologies, but that is what is being done...
...Model Cities staff has thrown itself into a seemingly unresolvable dilemma. The harder they work, the sooner they die. Perhaps a sudden flare-up is preferable to a lingering death, but some residents disagree, and the staff itself is divided. The Model Cities agency can do a lot of good things in Cambridge, but when it becomes so enmeshed in politics...