Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...placement of the last sheet of lead on the spire. Macaulay, a young architect, uses voluminous knowledge and pen-and-ink sketches, accompanied by a brief, clear narrative. He shows how to design and build a flying buttress, cast a bell in bronze, use the mortise-and-tenon method on the roof beams. By changing his viewpoint, he also powerfully conveys the immense rook-filled heights of the cathedral...
Beer writes in his 39-page paper that post-Watergate reformers should center their work around existing institutions and not try "to deduce a more perfect method from some abstract view of men and politics...
...need to drive, rather than ability to pay. The rich could not buy up all the gasoline, and the poor would be assured of some fuel. Even the most vocal advocates, however, concede that rationing has flaws. Banker David Rockefeller, for example, supports it as "the most equitable" method of sharing the hardship, but adds that "rationing is a very unappetizing and inefficient and undesirable kind of thing...
Under one version of this plan, marketable coupons would be issued not just to drivers but to anyone who had a Social Security number; this method could accomplish a redistribution of income from rich to poor that even George McGovern might approve. But there might still be a true black market alongside the white one. Counterfeiting of coupons might still be profitable if the resale supply of legitimate coupons was tight and prices skyhigh...
...school deserves attention, more than it gets. But it should not be subjected to the kind of misdirected attention Peter Cohen bestows on it. The Gospel... is plagued with problems of writing, problems of reporting, problems with the method of presentation, and problems of perspective...