Word: method
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Bugs Are Coming" mentions new effective pest-killing innovations but declares that the evolution of the insect will outmode the best of them. It has been suggested that this would not be the case if the various techniques were intermittently applied. When one method is only used for a short time and then replaced with another, evolution of the insect is prevented without destroying the environment...
...Hampshire has had greater difficulties. Its Provincial Congress wrote to the Continental Congress last fall to report that it was in a "convuls'd state" and needed guidance "with respect to a method for our administering justice and regulating our civil police." John Adams of Massachusetts was delighted to reply (indeed he published his Thoughts on Government last January for the guidance of all legislators with similar difficulties). Said he: "[Adopt] a plan resembling the government under which we were born. Kings we never had among us. Nobles we never had. But Governors and councils we have always...
...treatment derived more than a half-century ago from the Orient and the Ottoman Empire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, wife of the British ambassador to Constantinople, was so impressed by the Turks' resistance to the small pox that she had her own children inoculated by the Turkish method and recommended the procedure to the royal family. King George I tried it first on six captives at Newgate Prison, then on eleven charity children. Since they survived, he had his granddaughters inoculated...
CATCH 1: U.S. corporations operating abroad would be required to report to the Federal Government any sizable payments that were intended "directly or indirectly to influence the conduct of foreign governments." The exact reporting method has not yet been worked out. By confessing its misdeed, the U.S. corporation would gain immunity from prosecution at home. However, the U.S. State Department would be authorized to forward the company's admission to the concerned country, which could then use the confession as grounds for prosecution under its own laws...
After then travelling through India, Nepal, and the veldts of East Africa (where Land Rover safaris past Kilimanjaro and across the Serengeti plain were the major method of instruction), the year concluded at Jaeger's villa overlooking the Mediterranean at Sperlonga, Italy. Only a few of the students--one a woman who remained in a Sherpa village near Mt. Everest--failed to join the rest for the final week of the school. The week was given over to thesis writing (or dancing, or narrating) for those concerned about academic credit when they returned to their respective colleges...