Word: method
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Failing the Test. The immediate trouble is that Connally's negotiating method is to press the other side to the limit, and to see what concessions can be wrung out before offering anything in return. That tactic may work at home, but Europeans do not bargain the way Texans do. Unpublished sections of a report adopted by the 55-member council of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, meeting in Geneva last week, indicated the danger. The report warned that if the U.S. import surcharge is still in effect by Jan. 1 and prevents the U.S. from carrying...
Such an outcome would be the opposite of what the Nixon Administration says it wants: a reformed international monetary system and freer trade. Those are worthy and indeed indispensable goals, but Connally's method of pursuing them so far is failing the first test of effective negotiation. It simply is not producing the intended results...
...admitted that he was "in somewhat of a quandary as to how such a method could be adapted to society as a whole." When questioned about his definition of 'socially useful', Herrnstein said that would depend on the society...
...admitted that he was "in somewhat of a quandary as to how such a method could be adapted to society as a whole." When questioned about his definition of 'socially useful', Herrnstein said that would depend on the society...
...their lives," says Skinner, "these boys had been told that they couldn't learn and that they were useless. But under conditions that reinforced them every time they progressed, their morale improved enormously. Moreover, the return rate to the school dropped from 85% to 25% after the method was instituted...