Word: models
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...Elementary is the picture of a frayed inner-city school. Eighty-five percent of the students live below the poverty level. And a security guard keeps students inside--and intruders out--once the morning bell rings. But enter El-Roy Estes' fourth-grade classroom and you'll see a model of order. As students wearing crisp blue-and-white uniforms file in, Estes studies a three-ring binder to find out what's on tap for this morning, Day 111 of the school year. He begins the class with grammar exercises and then discusses a short story. All the while...
...what would he and his followers do if they won Washington's seal of approval? They would seek return of some of their ancestral lands, he says, on which they would establish a museum and model village. And that's not all. "We're talking," he adds, "about having the largest casino in the world...
...glorification of the type of policing practiced by Detective Sipowicz on NYPD Blue, where the end always justifies the means, cannot be tolerated. This role model must be changed. Policing is not entertainment. It is real. It is complex. It can be a matter of life or death...
...Kathy has been a role model and mentor to countless people throughout the course of her 23-year coaching career," said WBCA President Theresa Grentz, the Coach at the University of Illinois, in a press release. "Kathy's courage and character have been even more evident as she faces the challenge of fighting cancer...
...illustrator James Montgomery Flagg use as a model for Uncle Sam in his "I Want You" poster...