Word: method
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That was not all. The convention shouted through a resolution dismissing integration as a "failure" and urging that "black power replace assimilation and moral suasion as the dominant philosophy, theme and method of the movement"-in other words, that Negroes isolate themselves and seize power wherever they can. In a confidential memorandum distributed only to selected delegates, CORE also attacked American foreign policy, particularly the war in Viet Nam: "To support a war such as this, filled with conscious racism, is to support the racism on which it feeds. To support a war such as this is to support...
...often painfully difficult to define. In a classic example, is a newspaper violating privacy by publishing the photograph of a woman jumping to her death? Her husband thought so, and sued the Los Angeles Examiner. But the state courts ruled in effect that by choosing such a spectacular method of killing herself, his wife had made herself a public figure, thereby forfeiting the right of privacy...
...method was to sleuth out-in a way still not fully known-the names of 58 of the super-secret Nielsen sample of 1,200 households. He mailed them questionnaires before the Channing special, asked questions about the commercials on the show, enclosed $3 with each questionnaire and promised to send the viewers another $5 each after they mailed in the completed form...
...patient who could not afford it. But when the question came to a vote in the house of delegates, the moderates were overridden and all A.M.A. doctors were urged-though not required-to bill every patient directly. The way some delegates saw it, the Government-preferred billing method somehow inserts Medicare into "the sacred doctor-patient relationship...
Invitation to Disaster. Since all will-distributed property is subject to probate, the man who wishes to avoid the process is well advised to reduce the amount of his property that need be willed. One method, which also avoids federal gift taxes, is for a married couple to give away assets of $60,000 in one chunk, plus yearly chunks of $6,000 to each child. Another way is to put assets into life insurance, payable to a named beneficiary other than one's estate; the proceeds escape probate. Other assets can be disposed of by "joint tenancy with...