Word: method
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...advisers on what to include in the package, most of them have now been resolved. Most notably, the CEA has dropped its objection to a Treasury proposal that would soften the policy of taxing dividends twice-once as corporate income and again as individual income of shareholders. Though the method to be used has not yet been finally decided, some relief from double taxation is all but certain to be included in the package. Ultimately, of course, the decision will be up to the President, who is studying nine position papers containing about 50 options, each with boxes labeled "Agree...
...second fact: for generations, racial discrimination in the U.S. isolated certain minorities [and] condemned them to inferior education. And then there is one third fact: there is no racially blind method of selection which will enroll today more than a trickle of minority students in the nation's colleges and professions...
...thermodynamics holds that energy tends to dissipate and that organized systems drift into disorder. But many biological processes, including the ones in which simple acids combine to form complex molecules or in which cells join together to form higher organisms, seem to contradict this rule. Prigogine has provided a method for including biological systems within the framework of thermodynamics. Some 20 years ago he developed mathematical models of a class of systems he termed "dissipative structures," which could dissipate energy at the same time they were organizing themselves and growing in size and complexity. Chemical confirmation of his theory...
...Johnson suffered in his 50s, Bate argues, was provoked by "the habit of leaping ahead in imagination into the future and forestalling disappointment"; he had renounced hope, the one virtue he believed essential to life. This sort of intuitive speculation, intimate but never condescending, recalls Johnson's own method in Lives of the Poets. No other biographer of Johnson has meditated so profitably on the qualities that made him "a heroic, intensely honest, and articulate pilgrim in the strange adventure of human life." James Atlas
...society today in light of behavioral trends that have accelerated in recent years. "This nation is suffering from an epidemic of anxiety neurosis," Humes says, an epidemic that is "approaching pestilential proportions." In presenting his case for the reintroduction of marijuana in a medicinal context, Humes says that therapeutic methods using cannabis could be successfully applied to patients suffering from this modern neurosis. He draws a parallel between the symptoms of a heroin addict going through severe withdrawal and an individual suffering from an "acute anxiety neurosis episode." Humes attributes the rise in the incidence of arson, rape, and other...