Word: method
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...forceful witness was Swedish Journalist Sven Öste, foreign editor of Dagens Nyheter, Stockholm's largest morning newspaper. During a visit to North Viet Nam, he charged that the U.S. was using such bombs as "a new method of inflicting terror on the population back of the dikes." The magnetic bombs prevented workers from using machines to fill in craters from earlier explosions, said Öste, and some of the bombs were capable of burying themselves deep below the surface...
Mize's method is to buy relatively small, family-owned, money-earning companies and then rapidly increase their profits by hiring new managers, paring payrolls and investing in modern machines and plants. His record of successes has brought him into the clubby inner circle of Houston's top businessmen and bankers, who lend him money to make deals. Speaking of his own wealth, Mize says, with some understatement: "I'm not big rich, but I'm damned comfortable...
Radiation. At present the only method man has for producing muon beams of message-carrying strength is to use expensive atom smashers. But Arnold contends that less costly machines designed specifically to make muons could be built in the near future. According to his estimate, a 100 billion-volt synchrotron, capable of producing a muon beam with a range of up to 600 miles, would cost about $10 million. That is roughly the price of a system of microwave towers covering a comparable distance. Furthermore, Arnold says, there might actually be a savings if muon beams were used to take...
Although his admiration for the Somalis is genuine, he nevertheless sees primitivism as a vastly overrated way of life. On the other hand, the European's contribution in Africa has too often been merely a more efficient method of killing. Hanley's solitary reflections have taught him that there is really no satisfying man's greed, lust and appetite for novelty. In independent Kenya, where he returns to observe, only the Tusker beer seems to be the same. Many of his friends are gone, the game is scarcer and, as Hanley had noticed in much of East...
...wish that were true. In this modern age most farmers still follow the archaic method of taking their produce to market and asking "What will you give...