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Word: methodic (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Tories took 60 of the country's 81 seats, leaving the Laborites with only 17. Saddest of the losers were the Liberals. Though they gained 1.7 million votes, or 13.1% of the British total, the Liberals won no seats at all because Britain eschewed the proportional representation method of allotting seats that prevailed elsewhere...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EUROPE: Forum of Political Stars | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

That experience offers lessons for today. After several false starts, the Government in World War II decided to concentrate on one method of production and poured resources into it. Top managers were recruited from private industry, there were attractive incentives to manufacture the product-and in a remarkably short time, the nation was almost completely self-sufficient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Play It Again, Uncle Sam | 6/25/1979 | See Source »

...attack. American Vice President Donald J. Lloyd-Jones insisted that two McDonnell Douglas representatives had watched the airline change its very first DC-10 pylon on April 17, 1977. He also claimed that the manufacturer had observed numerous such changes since then and never objected to the one-step method. He termed the McDonnell Douglas charge "gratuitous and unnecessary." (The manufacturer withheld comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Debacle of the DC-10 | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...being debated at an elected representative assembly. Sharietmadari's view was that a constituent assembly was the "only way to reconcile expertise with popular representation." Sharietmadari will openly oppose a referendum. Says he: "It is like asking the man in the street to vote on this or that method of curing cancer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: More Trouble for Khomeini | 6/18/1979 | See Source »

...School, but many other controversial figures disregarded the commotion and spoke at the school anyway, Allison says. And Jackson points out that the school does not appear to have lost any donations because of the controversy. Two years ago, the K-School adopted a more organized fundraising method to raise $25 million, and has already raised about $16 million, much of it during this controversy-filled year...

Author: By Susan K. Brown, | Title: That Damned Library | 6/7/1979 | See Source »

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