Word: approaches
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rejection could mean an early showdown with the government. Despite Thatcher's tough stand on the abuses of union power, her moderate Employment Secretary, James Prior, quickly convened back-to-back meetings with leaders of both labor and industry. In both cases, he stressed his own "softly, softly" approach. But in both cases, he was also warned that the next few months will be "hard going" on the labor front...
Many speakers also criticized the Kennedy-Metzenbaum bill for shifting the burden of proof. The U.S. Government would not have to prove that a proposed merger might hurt competition, but the company wanting to expand would have to prove that competition would actually increase. Economist MacAvoy suggested that this approach was little more than a power play to make it easier for the Government to prove its antitrust cases. But, he contended, "the burden of proof should rest with the Michael Pertschuks of this world." The FTC is already empowered to act as both the prosecutor and judge in antitrust...
This sex strategy has been touted as a promising approach in pest control. But the search for the complex roach excitant was a needle-in-the-haystack challenge. For Dutch Entomologist CJ. Persoons, the breakthrough came with new techniques for separating chemicals...
...limit, rather than an averaging approach, on cruise missiles aboard bombers. Since the Russians were yielding to the U.S. on the averaging approach, Gromyko continued, their earlier concession on the MIRV freeze was no longer operative. Sighed a haggard American official, paraphrasing Lenin, "One step forward, one step backward...
...ORDER TO RELIEVE the pressures that drive students to use the sick-out, the University should form a policy which shifts the weighting of grades away from final exams to overall course-work. This approach could partially defuse the threat posed by final exams, and might also encourage students to keep up with their courses through the term...