Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...economic sciences, a member of an exclusive club of whisky drinkers, a dancer of the tango, a playboy, a reader of Adam Smith, and a wearer of the arrogant colored vests introduced by Wilde and Disraeli." When he got home, he turned the family hacienda into a lucrative model of science and mechanization, went back to economics as a director of Peru's Reserve Bank, making it into a modern central bank. He dabbled in journalism as holder of controlling interest in a struggling little newspaper called La Prensa. World War II took him to the U.S.: Washington...
...adopted state: a school district that spends money. This began in 1956, when Rockefeller launched a $2,500,000 plan "to set a pattern for other school districts to follow." He has since given Morrilton schools $100,000 a year, picked up the $800,000 tab for a model elementary school, and so roused the citizenry that they floated a $350,000 bond issue, doubled real estate assessment and boosted school taxes...
Built for New Jersey's Wallace Laboratories, makers of meprobamate (best known as Miltown), the model illustrated both basic brain physiology and the effects of various tranquilizing drugs, as reported by Dr. Harold E. Himwich of Galesburg State Research Hospital in Illinois. To spell out his findings, a 16-minute recording was played, while a tape of recorded instructions controlled the illustrative lights in the model. To the visiting G.P.s, most of whom had given no thought to the brain's anatomy since their first year in medical school, the technical jargon was almost as forbidding...
...unsedated physician was alert enough to step behind the curtain to examine the model brain's wiring. Said he: "Anybody who can keep this thing running must also be able to give firsthand testimony on the various tranquilizers. It would make a nervous wreck out of me without my Miltown...
...Slaytons were supposedly the investment advisers to Managed Funds, and collected more than $1,000,000 in five years for deciding what stocks the fund should buy or sell. In fact, said SEC, the Slaytons made no market decisions. They let Stephen M. Jaquith of Manhattan's Model, Roland & Stone brokerage firm choose what stocks to trade-and also gave Jaquith Managed Funds' brokerage business. Jaquith's commissions: $1,188,155. Another Model, Roland & Stone employee, who collected $240,831: Harold W. Smith, Hovey Slayton's brother...