Word: method
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Haymarket also serves as an organization to give an individual with inherited wealth a structured method of dealing with it responsibly, David Crocker, another Haymarket member, said...
Harvard will pay approximately $174,000 per year for use of the Cambridge sewer system if the Cambridge city council votes next week to change the method of raising $15.2 million in funds for the renovation of the sewer system...
Once installed in a Paris apartment, Doudet began her course of treatment. She tied the children's wrists and ankles to the bedposts-a common method approved by their father. She also kept them on a starvation diet and subjected them to nasty tortures. On a rare visit to Paris, Marsden attributed his daughters' rickety, emaciated appearance to their persistence in the "secret vice" and ordered up some "preventive belts." Another physician who called upon the girls made a similar diagnosis...
Howe's thesis is strong, her approach striking. But while the descriptive, interview-laden method is the book's strongest point, Howe's handling of it frequently detracts from the point she is trying to make. Letting the women speak for themselves is admirable; getting caught up in their personal lives to the extent that their stories obstruct analysis verges on bathos. Howe's descriptions come perilously close to true confessions--and this tendency becomes an overly heavy counterweight to abstract statistics. Her opening and closing chapters raise questions about the societal foundations underlying women's place in the labor...
...October 1974 Dubcek addressed a lengthy protest to Czechoslovakia's Parliament against the system of absolute power ruling his country. "It is crucial," he wrote, "that the very concept behind this method of governing be destroyed theoretically, organizationally and politically...