Word: method
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...area adjudged safe because of the protective presence of a pine forest higher on the slope, an avalanche killed 13 people and demolished 20 chalets. Unable to prevent avalanches, the Swiss believe that it sometimes pays to start them at a time and place of their choosing. One method is to blast avalanche-prone slopes with mortars and grenades, a technique also used by U.S. Forest Service rangers. Another is to send an expert-and courageous-skier across the slopes in the hope that his tracks will cut the snow into sections and relieve tensions before they build...
Last week the furor reached new heights when the board circulated proposed new rules that would force most merging companies to change the way they explain the deal to shareholders. The method used in many of the 6,000 mergers announced last year was to treat the combination as a pooling of interests. In effect, the accounts of two firms that merged were treated as if they had always been one. Abraham Briloff, professor of accountancy at Manhattan's Bernard M. Baruch College, compares the technique to bikini bathing suits. "What they reveal is interesting," he says, "but what...
Nash stated in the letter that he would not recommend to his successor that Hartman be reappointed because his "method of teaching conveys a sense of political strategy more than the substance of the city and regional planning" and that his "loyalties to the school and the University have lessened rather than increased during the past three years...
...method, of course, has several obvious advantages. With a diligent effort, the author can turn out a book in two months, well within the life-span of an athlete's popularity. Since the story is told in an athlete's own words, more or less, it has more direct appeal to an audience that is usually hungry for the "inside stuff" on the athlete. And since the subject himself actually wrote the book, as it were, it can lay claim to being an "official" autobiography-always a valuable asset to its financial success...
...mentality of social consciousness, and out of that mentality sprang the social protest plays of the '30s and the Group Theater. The mentality of Freudian psychology prefigured Tennessee Williams and all the psychologically oriented plays of the '40s and '50s, together with the Actors Studio and Method acting. What Hair, Oh! Calcutta! and The Company imply and anticipate is a mentality of paganism, quite possibly the first such mentality ever to shape the course of the American theater. As yet, this mentality lacks a commanding playwright or an acting discipline, but it seems distinctly likely that these...