Word: models
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Until Dale Carnegie takes hold as the new model for postal supervisors, one postmaster has a low-tech idea for improving service in Worthington, Ohio. For every letter misdelivered, the postman refunds the cost of the stamp to the customer out of his own pocket. Since September, 44 quarters have been paid out and complaints have dropped from ten a week...
...found an envelope in my mailbox containing two sheets of onionskin paper. The first sheet was an anonymous report on the arrest and confinement in a psychiatric hospital of Viktor Kuznetsov, an artist who had helped draft a model constitution for our country, which the authors hoped would spark discussion about the introduction of democracy...
...world's resources and has inflicted more than its share of environmental damage. But perhaps the strongest argument for American leadership on the environment is an idealistic one. Ronald Reagan loved to sing paeans to America's unique role as "a city on a hill" -- an inspiring model of democracy and free enterprise. Now that much of the world seems to be moving in a democratic direction, the U.S. should set its sights on an even loftier, more urgent mission: saving the planet...
...Western Europe should not be tempted into slowing or diluting its program of economic integration scheduled to culminate in 1992. The European Community must remain a beacon and a model for reformist leaderships in the East...
According to Migranyan, the unsettling change in climate is partly due to Gorbachev's democratizing efforts. Those measures have permitted grass-roots resistance to unpopular reforms. "The Soviet Union," said Migranyan, "is acting like a democracy without really being one." Above all, said Migranyan, his country needed a model to make the transition from state-owned to free- market economy. "Nobody knows how to do it," he said, including Gorbachev, whose government lacks "conceptual ideas and clarity about what to do." Migranyan said the short-term remedy was either food or force. As long as there was sausage...