Word: modelled
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Harvard's Jackson, who served this summer on the committee President Bok formed last spring to investigate the possibilities of a Third World center on campus, terms the Princeton model "feasible." She says students trying to establish a Third World center hope for an accessible location with a library, kitchen, a large meeting room, office space for Third World organizations, and smaller seminar rooms...
...Chief, which he once banned as too imperial but reinstated when he realized the importance of such symbolism. As he talks about the serious challenges facing America, he also makes a salesman's pitch. "The next time you get ready to change cars and buy a new model, give those new American cars and those American automobile workers a chance." Carter would not have thought of that kind of boosterism a year...
Econometric models are a combination of economics, mathematics and statistics. Model builders usually set up several hundred mathematical equations that represent the variables in any economy. After these are fed into a computer, the model can provide a picture of how the economy might react to a change in one or more important factors. Economists can predict, for example, how a severe drought in the Middle West might affect not only food prices but also consumer purchases of everything else...
Cline says that safety guidelines similar to those in the U.S. were followed in Israel and Italy. But, observed one Israeli hematologist, "if this type of research is forbidden in the U.S., a world model for such work, I would hesitate to approve it in my own country." In Washington, the National Institutes of Health's Office for Protection from Research Risks has asked U.C.L.A. for a full report. Declares Cline: "After consideration of all the scientific and moral aspects, I'd do it again...
...suggestive patter, gentleman friend on the side. She's not. She's a housewife who cannot keep house, and whose only escape from her drab apartment is a weekly movie matinee with the superintendent (Everett McGill). O.K., her Mongol cheekbones do suggest a touch of fashion-model class. True, the young super does look as if he placed second in a Jack Palance look-alike contest. But it is still 1953, and this is Union City, N.J. From the wrong side of the Hudson River, the lights of New York can seem a million miles away...