Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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CURTIS HAYWORTH, president of Manhattan's World Patent Development Corp., trades in technology. At first the firm specialized in acquiring rights to Eastern European technology and offering them to U.S. customers; for example, Hayworth is making available to U.S. libraries a Czech method for preserving old books. "Then we started to know the Eastern Europeans, and they started to trust us," says Hayworth. "So now they come to us for U.S. technology." Czech pharmaceutical officials, to cite an instance, want to buy American machinery for making plastic pill bottles. World Patent intends to export to Eastern Europe an American...
...explained that Kundalini Yoga originated in India about 5000 years ago. "It used to be shrouded in mysticism, fear, egotism and ignorance. The new method of teaching Kundalini Yoga came three and a half years ago when Yogi Bhajan came to the United States and started teaching...
...Almost everybody would agree that this is the most powerful method of yoga," Lee continued. "The power comes, at least on the physical level, from increasing the circulation of blood, expanding the lungs, and in allowing the hormones to secrete in correct balance...
HEALERS AND REVOLUTIONARIES there many characteristics: a belief in a social or mental ideal; a commitment to the achievement of that ideal; and a chosen method of effecting change. The methods depend on the man; if he is active he looks outside himself for evidence of wrong, and concentrates on altering the externalities of political or psychic life. If he is contemplative, he concerns himself with the state of his own mind, looks inward for guidance, and affirms his own internal relation to the world before prescribing correctives for others...
...same time, Kemeny crusaded for the then-radical idea that every student should learn to use a computer. He helped to invent a simplified language for communicating with computers (called BASIC); he pioneered in the development of time snaring, a method by which many people can use a computer simultaneously. The computer even became his chief form of relaxation. In the small hours of the morning, after what is often a 20-hour workday, Kemeny frequently plays simulated games of chess, poker and football on a computer console in the study of his home. For Dartmouth's football coaches...