Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mailman compared the postal strike to a volcano. In its sudden fury, the stoppage that began last week was indeed cataclysmic, but labor trouble has been only one of the latent threats to the mail service. The Post Office Department has long suffered from deteriorating facilities, a chaotic financing method and archaic approaches to both moving mail and administering the organization...
...voter registration in the North by suspending literacy tests nationwide and relaxing residency requirements for presidential elections. But by allowing the 1965 law to expire, the measure would also eliminate the Justice Department's right to review voting laws, forcing it back to the old case-by-case method of implementation and slowing black registration in the South...
...method is the so-called "British system," based on the operating premise that heroin addiction is a sickness, not a crime. As originally conceived, the system allowed British physicians who were convinced that complete withdrawal would endanger the addict's physical and mental health to prescribe maintenance doses of the drug. This was permitted only if the addict patient could not be persuaded to undergo a cure or enter an institution. The program had one obvious advantage: by making drugs legally available, it eliminated the addict's dependence on black-market suppliers and made it unnecessary...
...whole," he continued, "the arts are the chief method of communication of the day. Homer is dead and his world is dead also. But today, like always, without communication, a proper human life is not possible...
...character in foreground. The background works on the characters emotionally, through its colors. The walls behind them are so brightly lit that one's attention is not drawn to any single object; the character seems to stand before a colored screen. The lengths to which Chabrol carries this lighting method throws all detailing of behavior and motivation onto the actors in the foreground. They rise magnificently to the challenge...