Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there are some obvious avenues of attack. Government should loosen regulation, as President Carter has promised. One method would be to set pollution standards and impose stiff fines for violations, but leave it to industry to devise the least costly methods of cleaning up; this would be more sensible than specifying in great detail what equipment should be installed and how plants should be modified, as regulators often do now. Tax policies could be revised to spur investment. Economists quarrel about whether further cuts in taxes on capital gains and corporate profits, more generous investment tax credits or faster depreciation...
...break. In that way he is able to induce an electrical current within the bone. The treatment requires only a 10-volt portable powerpack, can be operated by the patient at home, and is continued for about the same two to four months as Brighton's method...
Isaac Asimov, the prodigious popularizer of science, reacts hotly to the Jastrow book. "Science and religion proceed by different methods," he says. "Science works by persuasive reason. Outside of science, the method is intuitional, which is not very persuasive. In science, it is possible to say we were wrong, based on data." Science is provisional; it progresses from one hypothesis to another, always testing, rejecting the ideas that do not work, that are contradicted by new evidence. "Faith," said St. Augustine, "is to believe, on the word of God, what we do not see." Faith defies proof; science demands...
...government's detective work uncovered the fact that about $5800 was credited to a National Institutes of Health grant, and about $600 charged twice to the same account. In addition, the auditors found evidence of some incorrect accounting procedures, such as the method of calculating salary payments to researchers...
Lindsey Hopkins and Church Yearley, the two directors, revealed the overdraft as part of a report on Lance's affairs that was required by the Securities and Exchange Commission. Hopkins and Yearley said, however, they believe the overdraft occurred because the bank was at that time inexperienced in its method of recording loans...