Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...officials to a central counting place, where its contents are fed into a computer that announces the results within moments. A control experiment was conducted with the help of a county grand jury, which was handed a quantity of ballots that took 21 hours of counting. By the electronic method, those same ballots were counted accurately in ten seconds. The electronic system enabled Orange County to cut its costs from $1.22 to 600 per voter...
...second method is to put the same melody in different contexts. This constitutes a strong return to the classical tradition. Probably the best example is Bach's The Art of the Fugue, in which one theme is put in hundreds of different harmonic, rhythmic, and mood contexts. Davidson played at this method continually Thursday night, perhaps most successfully in "Stately I." The harmonies sound awfully dissonant at first--as did regular triads in the Middle Ages--and the mood changes are more extreme than those in Bach, but the technique is similar...
...reinterated Johnson's contention that the FRB has acted hastily and went on to contradict the Board's contention that the new discount was the best method to solve the balance-of-payments problem...
...drastic reduction in recent years in the death rate from cholera has resulted mainly from the method that Dr. Phillips' team has devised to maintain the victims' balance of fluids and those all-important electrolytes, the salts of sodium and potassium. But even that Battle is not yet won. Johns Hopkins' Dr. Craig K. Wallace told the International Congress of Pediatrics in Tokyo hat the death rate is almost seven times as high among children under nine as among adults, because their fluid loss is proportionately greater...
...rebel bishops were rocked, at least momentarily, when the Cabinet passed a draft bill that would depose the Assembly, appoint one in its place from the nonrebellious bishops and reform the method of paying bishops. The rebels countered with a threat to excommunicate any bishop who agreed to serve on the government-appointed synod, to cast an anathema on the government, to close every church in Greece and order priests not to perform marriages and christenings...