Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...further argues that the hegemonic model of power, which holds that one nation must logically replace another as dominant, is obsolete...
...think it will be important to have guidelines to make policies under," Shin says. "Harvard, at least the office, likes to have the same model applicable for everyone, and that just doesn't work...
This week the boy builder will cut the ribbon on his newest playground with the help, boasts he, of Michael Jackson, Liza Minnelli, but not Marla Maples, the mystery model at the center of the now legendary (and thoroughly tedious) Trump divorce. Roughly 1,800 reporters, photographers and media types will come to ogle "The Donald's" creation -- all 420 million sq. ft. of it, all $1 billion worth, all designed by an architect no one has heard of, in a city no one wants to live in. "It's a billion-dollar hotel," thumps Trump, "and it looks...
Today social and political integration remains fraught with ambiguity. Seen as a "model minority" rather than as a group of separate communities requiring specific kinds of help, Asian Americans are often shut out of affirmative-action programs. Asian Americans say the label is used to taunt blacks and Hispanics, that it implies, "The Asians have made it, so why can't you?" Says Reed Ueda, a Japanese-American professor of history at Tufts University in Massachusetts: "It's a way of manipulating other minorities. It tends to isolate Asians and brings resentment." Unfortunately, the typical response from Asian Americans...
...answer characteristic of the affable Pieroth, 55. A scion of West Germany's pre-eminent family of wine merchants, Pieroth is a model of can-do spirit. Despite the immensity of the task before him, he is confident that, once unshackled, the East Germans will build for themselves a vibrant new economy just as surely as their West German counterparts did after the devastation of World War II. "In the coming years, we can harness the idea of keeping up with the Joneses," he says. "The East Germans want to show the West Germans that they can do just...