Word: method
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...Harvard's plan Walter J. Leonard, the University's affirmative action co-ordinator wrote, "The increase of doctoral candidates is critical and obviously the most effective method in increasing the number of minority and women junior faculty members." It is impossible for Harvard, under the present GSAS admission policy, to fulfill this pledge and committment...
Less controversial is the FAO proposal for a kind of food early warning system, a centralized method for collecting worldwide facts on the types and quantities of crops planted, exports and imports, changes in weather and expected yields. If all nations cooperate-notably including the U.S.S.R. and China, which treat agricultural information as state secrets-approaching shortages can be spotted early and food-relief missions might avoid the delays that led to thousands of deaths during last year's aid efforts in Ethiopia and the Sahel...
...time when people can get together." When they do get together, discussions are apt to be heated and noisy. Staffers of the center represent a fairly wide range of feminist opinion and sometimes find it difficult to reach a consensus--but most seem to agree that this method of group decision-making, although perhaps relatively inefficient, is worthwhile...
Even Harvard's newest building, Canaday Hall, has financial problems. The beleaguered Faculty must pay between $250,000 and $300,000 for an overrun on the construction costs of the building. The reason for the overrun is Canaday's expensive "fast-track" construction, a method the University used to get the building finished by the time this year's freshman class arrived in Cambridge...
Ellsberg made public his talk with the Niemans yesterday, denouncing Colby's off-the-record meeting with Niemans last night and describing such briefings--in which journalists agree not to publish what they learn--as "a method of plugging newsmen into the government bureaucracy and making them part...