1.  And he proudly describes California Pacific as a national model for major hospitals that must conform to the new age of market competition.

2.  Arra said the department wants to create a national model for protective segregation.

3.  Both programs, which are considered national models, represent a shift in traditional Jewish education away from focusing primarily on children.

4.  A pragmatic conservative, Thompson made a name for himself with a welfare-to-work program that has become a national model.

5.  A radical experiment in teacher pay here could become a national model if successful.

6.  After all, our public schools are a national model of learning.

7.  Alan Baker, owner of Horizon Personnel in Parsippany, N.J., signed the New Jersey code, but said he was less happy about the national model.

8.  But Kerry said Thursday during a telephone interview that the pact should be a national model.

9.  But North Carolina is the state that federal safety experts cite as a national model in the campaign against drunken driving.

10.  Colorado is something of a national model for how to nurture charter schools.