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I think that the model -- if the model was an absolute faith in markets, as Alan Greenspan said in his testimony to Congress in October, he said we believed that banks and the people who ran them were the best people to protect their shareholders and their own equity, and that turned out to be not absolutely the case.

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  1. noun A small object, usually built to scale, that represents in detail another, often larger object.
  2. noun A preliminary work or construction that serves as a plan from which a final product is to be made: a clay model ready for casting.
  3. noun Such a work or construction used in testing or perfecting a final product: a test model of a solar-powered vehicle.
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  • What I had set up as a model was a small tri-dee picture. —  Norton, Andre - Uncharted Stars (v1.0) (html).html
  • I think that the model -- if the model was an absolute faith in markets, as Alan Greenspan said in his testimony to Congress in October, he said we believed that banks and the people who ran them were the best people to protect their shareholders and their own equity, and that turned out to be not absolutely the case. —  NewsHour with Jim Lehrer Podcast | PBS
  • "Bill Gilliss" wrote in message news: 6115962@discussion. autodesk.com ... malche wrote: the model is a 3ds model (made in 3dsmax) I want to convert the model to a drawing in different views & to edit the lines ... —  All Discussion Groups: Message List - root
  • Even more important that the limitations of a model are the assumtions taken in developing the model and / or feeding the data into the model, these should always be made clear to whomever the user of the model is, and it is then up to the user to decide if those assumtions are reasonable for their use of it. —  Medlogs - Recent stories
  • Demonstrations of the applications for the model are also available. —  PHONE Magazine
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  1. French modèle, from Italian modello, diminutive of modo, form, from Latin modus, measure, standard; see med- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Formerly also modell (= Dutch model = G. Swedish modell = Danish model), from Old French modelle, French modèle = Spanish Portuguese modelo = Italian modello, a model, mold, from Latin modellus, diminutive of modulus, measure, standard, diminutive of modus, measure: see mode, and cf. module, modulus, mould, mold.
  2. Formerly also modell; from French modeler = Spanish Portuguese modelar = Italian modellare, model; from the noun: see model, n.
 

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