Word: method
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Although Train's speech implied a need for severe environmental regulatory measures, he said it was not necessary to accept "the dire hypotheses and methods underlying some of the more extreme predictions." A decidedly dire method of population control was advanced last week by the California social welfare board. The board's proposal for reducing illegitimacy in the state smacks ominously of Anthony Burgess's satiric novel The Wanting Seed, in which phony wars, homosexuality and cannibalism were officially encouraged as antidotes to overpopulation...
Folkman--who is also surgeon-in-chief at the Children's Hospital in Boston--said that a treatment method may be in hand within two to five years, and he added that his studies are being adequately funded by the American Cancer Society and the National Cancer Institute...
Subtlety isn't one of the play's virtues. Christie's killer sticks closely to the execution scheme that the "Ten Little Indians" poem suggests--which he conveniently displays next to the fireplace. After each ritual murder someone is sure to pipe up, "Oh, that method fits here!" The sexually repressed spinster, the swaggering man of adventure, and the sweet-young-thing secretary are just three of the ten cliches who populate the island. And it happens, of course, on a dark and stormy night...
...true that subject matter does change the contours of inquiry, but such differences stem rather from the nature of the phenomenon than from the suseptibility of the subject to scientific method or clear interpretation. But objective inquiry must employ Ralph Ellison's admonition to the Social Sciences: "Watch out, Jack, there're people living under here...
...reflection of Italian individualism. It is also a symptom of the country's deep political malaise. The center-left coalition, dominated by the Christian Democrats, which has governed Italy for a decade, is hopelessly divided by ideological quarrels and personal vendettas. Popular disgust with the coalition's method of governing by revolving-door cabinets-four in the past two years alone-could lead to modest gains for the Communists and their far-left allies...