Word: method
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...willingness to think about the unthinkable reflects a widespread restiveness on the part of many young West Germans over the division of the country. Since Bonn's old method of trying to isolate East Germany has not brought unification any nearer, many West Germans want to try some other way of pulling the two halves closer together...
There are 30 members of the Board, and they are divided by fives into six groups. Each group serves staggered, six-year terms so five new over seers are elected each spring to take office on Commencement Day. A 1921 law gave the governing boards control over the method, time, and place of voting. Using that authority, the Overseers have granted nominating powers to the Associated Harvard Alumni whose Nominating Committee annually chooses ten names for the vacancies. Insurgents can appear on the ballot by petitioning with support of 200 alumni. Write-in votes are also permitted...
...posters are hand-cut, too. This is important. Before the Friday night when the Strike Artists' Co-operative began, none of them had known about the technique of silk-screen printing. A couple of people brought in the method and showed them how it goes. Since then about thirty people have picked up the process by which virtually all of the posters of the strike have been printed...
...Much of Nothing" poster (see Strike Graphics Illustration #3) is a simply great, vaguely cubist construction with the letters "Too Much of Nothing" alternately dropping in and out of a background map of Harvard Yard. The silk-screen method is a medium particularly well suited to alternating blacks and whites so the background and foreground read over each other in a reverse transparency. The technique makes the "Too Much of Nothing" poster at first hard to read, but ultimately a wonderful design...
...treatment of the 7% tax credit to which companies are entitled on purchases of machinery. The board wanted to force businessmen to spread that credit over the life of the machinery instead of taking it entirely in the year of purchase. About 80% of U.S. companies use the latter method; for some, it provides the difference between profit and loss...