Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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There is much to be said for the prediction made by most airmen that war will never come as long as the Air Force packs this terrifying capability. Until some better method is found to preserve the peace, that puts the emphasis on maintaining the capability over a long period of time. And this, in turn, puts a new accent on the need for a stable Air Force...
...frustrated by procedural trivia. He yielded when opposition was time wasted. He forced the pace when the Russians sought delay. "If conferences can do nothing better than to create new conferences, and the new conferences do nothing better than to create more new conferences . . . the whole conference method will become an object of ridicule, and we with it," he warned Molotov at one point...
...classroom study, taught by the case method, includes courses in human relations, management practices, marketing, accounting, and personnel. Most of the material will be drawn from the Business School's collection of more than 20,000 case histories...
...beneath the brain and behind the eyes, as though nature had done her best to protect it from injury - or from the surgeon. Several ways of getting at it have been devised, but none is fully satisfactory. Dr. Picaza reported that he followed the general lines of the Swedish method-In a two-hour operation at the Institute of Radium of Mercedes Hospital, he lifted a flap of bone almost three inches square from Senora R.'s forehead. With the frontal lobe of the brain pushed aside, he worked past a barrier of optic nerves to cut the stalk...
...House Ways and Means Committee. The change would double depreciation rates allowed during the first year, with a gradual decline in depreciation allowance thereafter. For example, a $10,000 machine expected to last ten years can be depreciated at $1,000 a year under present law ("straight line" method); under the new method, the same machine could be depreciated $2,000 (or 20%) the first year, and 20% of the balance every year thereafter ("declining balance" system) until the final year, when the remainder could be written...