Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Administration also announced that Vern Countryman, professor of Law, and Walter A. Reiser, director of the Legal Method Program, have agreed to present evidence on the charges...
MANY RESEARCHERS believe that the best method of attacking cancer is to use the body's own genetic mechanism to order cancerous cells to stop growing. Transmitting such orders may be difficult. DNA programmed to carry the command would be digested almost immediately by the body's enzymes if it were injected into the bloodstream, thus making conventional methods of administering medication impractical. But RNA viruses, which produce DNA, have proven their ability to move directly into the cells and could easily carry such communications. Scientists speculate that benign viruses could be made in test tubes with proteins and synthesized...
...result, the Forest Service has increasingly endorsed "clear-cutting," an efficient logging method that involves cutting down all timber, after which a denuded area is replanted with the most marketable species. Is this good or bad for the country's 182 million acres of national forests...
...Coal reserves are gigantic, and some coal men argue that Washington could profitably divert much of the money that it spends on nuclear-power research to study ways to take the sulfur out of coal smoke. But even if coal could be cleaned up, the cheapest method of digging it out of the earth is strip mining, which turns large expanses of natural beauty into scenes of lunar desolation. Gasifying coal underground so that it can be moved easily by pipeline offers one way to make fuller use of the nation's resources; the feat is technically possible, though...
Nixon maintained that his method of ending American involvement in South Vietnam would bring this peace, calling it "something we haven't had for a full generation but something we can have...