Word: method
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...Greek island of Syme, but it requires too much space and sunshine to be practical almost anywhere else. Though not economical for seawater conversion, electrodialysis, in which electrically charged cellulose-acetate membranes attract the impurities, is being used to convert less salty but brackish waters. Still another method involves freezing. As a youth in Siberia, Alexander Zarchin, an Israeli engineer, became fascinated by the fact that he could drink melted water from the ice of salty seas. In freezing, he learned, the ice crystals form separately from the brine, then melt down as fresh water. One important advantage of this...
...believe that a Marxist necessarily has a closed mind is not merely wrong; it shows a lack of understanding of what Marxism is, and how Marxists think. Marxism is a philosophy, a science; it is a method of analysis, a way of looking at things. Marxists do not get answers from their science - only questions to ask, and a way to go about answering them. If American universities are really teaching their students to believe that membership in the Communist party must imply "a loss of independence of mind, and adherence to a rigid, anti-American ideology," then American universities...
...Justice Department assured Congress that basing the payment on a tax loss would not be taxation. The formula, said a Department memo, "merely represents a Congressional judgment that this is a practical, efficient, and just method of computing the federal payment...
...specialist (and to many specialists) almost everything Miller has to say about the life of the popular intellect in the first half of the nineteenth century will be new. No one else has ever approached the American past quite as Miller did, and his method stands in greater relief in this fragment than in his other books, largely because so much of the conventional history is familiar to us. Standard histories rarely discuss--rarely mention--the events and personalities Miller so vividly presents to us: the Great Awakening of 1857-58, the Reverend Charles Grandison Finney's revivals, the codifying...
This is unpromising in summation and wholly unreadable in execution. The author's method is to teeter on the window ledge of actuality for a few sentences at the beginning of each chapter and then jump into vagueness, singing like Ophelia...