Word: method
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Germany and Austria by Americans in uniform. The more perceptive Germans and Austrians realize that armies are everywhere the same, but the mass of people, failing to find a difference between a democratic and a totalitarian army, give up the puzzle altogether. Quoting Grace again, "The most effective method of establishing a society based on the democratic ideal is to abandon the use of the term as such, and, by practice and precept, lead the German people to accept this ideal...
This is the second year of experiments led by this group, which last year set up an air-tight method of testing extra-sensory perception or "the ability to perceive one's environment without means of the senses." The highly significant results of the tests were reported in the September issue or the Journal of Parapsychology, published by Duke University...
...method the group used was to have students try to duplicate an IBM examination sheet which had been checked at random and which was at the time 500 miles away. This year the society will conduct the same experiments and will try to determine how personality traits affect the students' attempts to duplicate the sheet. Previous experience suggests that personality traits do have a bearing on extra-sensory perception...
...this method a department whose "historical" size is 34 permanent members appoints a new one every year, regardless of whether none, one, or ten members, has retired during the year. A department of 17 permanent members appoints a new one every two years; a department of two every 17 years; etc. In case of sudden death or excessively premature resignation or retirement, a "call appointment" is made, which does not affect the periodical replenishment of the staff...
...dropped it because there was no appreciable improvement in worker morale or efficiency. Many unionists also oppose such plans, fearing that they will lead to the speedup. To that the council replies: not so. Profit sharing simply eliminates waste and carelessness. Said Clarence Wimpfheimer: "It is not a method of chiseling wages down. You establish a decent basic wage, and you put the profit sharing on top of that...