Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that [the terrorists] are desperate. For what can they sell our people? Our farmers own their land. Our workers can buy shares in factories. We will have popular elections soon. Studies are free. We are subsidizing food. They have nothing to sell, so they take recourse in this disgusting method of terror. They are not human. What motivates them? Despair. They are Marxists, and they know they cannot sell this ideology. And they are outlawed in our country. There are only maybe 100 or 150 of them, but they will never be finished as long as we have international subversion...
Several libraries have already bought the package. So has the Far East Book Co. of Hong Kong. Carrollton's president William Buchanan, a former CIA officer, smiled when this particular order came in. "That's obviously for transshipment to Peking," he said. "That's been their method of operation...
...pieces of legislation have started more arguments than the various bills Congress has considered to regulate strip mining of coal-a method that accounts for more than half the 600 million tons of coal produced annually in the U.S. Environmental groups, ranchers and farmers favor such a law; they are dismayed by the landslides, soil erosion, water pollution and impairment of natural beauty that often result from the stripping away of tons of topsoil to get at rich coal seams lying just beneath the earth's surface. Energy industries argue that to achieve some form of energy self-sufficiency...
...equal access is indeed the method by which Harvard and Radcliffe intend to increase the number of women undergraduates, why do even Radcliffe administrators concede that there will be little or no change in the number of women admitted over the next few years...
...method is the close--sometimes too close--analysis of prose texts of some 50 female authors. Her critical eye scans the writings of women ranging in talent from Ellen Glasgow to Virginia Woolf, in commitment from diarist Arvazine Cooper to Simone de Beauvoir, and in vision from the inventor of Ma Kettle to the creator of Martha Quest...