Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ryan, addressing a crowd of about 50 at a forum of the Spartacus Youth League in Boylston Hall, said she supports the union's "seniority" method of laying off workers, but attacked its implementation which she said was grossly unfair to women...
...important than the language. And his relative indifference to words is reflected in the play; even in the original French, speeches are full of stilted, awkward phrases, heavy-handed metaphors, and non sequiturs But if Artaud meant to avoid the conventional limitations of language, he certainly picked the wrong method. Other surrealistic authors, like fonesca, have successfully given words new impact but only by exercising careful control, not be ignoring them...
Throughout, Hearts and Minds displays more than enough heart. It is mind that is missing. Perhaps the deepest flaw lies in the method: the Viet Nam War is too convoluted, too devious to be examined in a style of compilation without comment. And righteous indignation may tend to blind the documentary film maker to his prime task: the representation of life in all its fullness, not only those incidents that conform to his thesis. Peter Davis is the talented creator of much-prized TV documentaries (Hunger in America, The Selling of the Pentagon). But these were simpler projects...
...imported oil that would protect the investments of companies developing new energy sources from the risk of suddenly falling crude prices. The other would achieve the same objective by levying a common tariff on oil imported from outside IEA nations. The Europeans, for their part, are looking for another method of protecting investment in energy development that would be more flexible and thus better able to meet the varying needs and capabilities of the consuming countries...
...killing is as senseless as the method is cruel. If the birds had been permitted to migrate as they soon would have, a serious study could have been made of the humane and effective means of preventing their regrouping. The Army's impact statement reflected a greater interest in killing them than in problem solving...