Word: method
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...most popular method of saving money and enjoying it is camping. Last week, from Maryland and Virginia's Assateague Island to California's Yosemite Valley, the national parks were in something like a state of siege-and they were still a month away from the season peak. Unhappily. Americans in their massive, neo-Thoreauvian urge threaten to create precisely the environment they are trying to escape. A haven like Yosemite, once celebrated by naturalists and the National Geographic, offers roughly the solitude of Central Park on a weekday. Says one Interior Department official: "Visiting Glacier National Park...
...their face value in payment of bail. The issues-all of them bearer bonds and thus freely negotiable -were a ragtag assortment of New York State Housing Authority and Dormitory Authority bonds. The man who engineered the transaction, New York Attorney Victor Rabinowitz, said he intends to use the method to free some of the remaining ten Panthers. As for Joan, she embraced her mother upon leaving the Women's House of Detention, then whipped off a clenched-fist salute...
...number of offensive strategic weapons. The Russians' slight edge in the number of land-based ICBMs (1,240 to 1,054) would be offset by the U.S.'s superiority in strategic bombers (533 to 150). Submarine-borne missiles may be excluded from the proposal unless a method can be found to reconcile the difference between the U.S.'s 41-ship fleet carrying 656 missiles and the Soviets' 40-sub flotilla with 280 missiles...
...heart, 79% that whooping cough cannot be inherited, 91% that chromosomes determine sex. Young adults did well in fact analysis and math calculations. But only 26% recalled that the periodic table shows the relationship of chemical elements, and a scant 3% correctly picked uranium-lead dating as an accurate method of determining the age of ancient rocks. Far oftener than any of the other groups, the 26-to-35s admitted their shortcomings and answered "I don't know...
...board has adopted some controversial proposals designed to make it difficult for merging companies to show an instant increase in their profits by the stroke of an accountant's pen. The most important reforms apply to a popular method of accounting for mergers known as pooling of interests. In pooling, an acquiring company writes the assets of another firm into its books at their original cost rather than their present value. Many conglomerates have later sold off a portion of such assets at a high price and reported the difference between that and the original cost...