Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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John Silber used this talent for intimidation when he was a philosophy professor at the University of Texas, fresh from Yale graduate school. He taught by the Socratic method and reportedly frightened some students to tears--all in the pursuit of educational excellence...
...second, more radical method involves cooking the shale underground. Occidental, which has pioneered this process, plans to dig at least 2,000 chambers connected by tunnels under a 5,000-acre shale tract leased from the Government. The chambers, each about the size of a football field and 250 ft. to 300 ft. high, are created by drilling parallel tunnels leading from a vertical mineshaft into the rock at two different depths. The shale in between is then reduced to rubble by explosions in both the top and bottom. Each chamber is sealed, and pilot-light burners are lowered...
Whatever extraction method is used, the investment will be enormous. Union's proposed 9,000-bbl.-a-day plant would cost $130 million; Occidental's 50,000-bbl.-a-day operation carries a $1 billion price tag. Colony's process, because of its size and capital investment, would be the most expensive: $1.5 billion to $2 billion...
...therapy is a cruel and barbaric anachronism. Partially as a result of the movie, the popular image of electric shock, which had been steadily fading in the U.S., grew even dimmer. Now shock treatment is regaining popularity, defended by many psychiatrists as a safe, humane and often dramatically effective method for treating some forms of mental illness, particularly depression...
...excessive emphasis on cost cutting," he recalls, "produced an aberrant method of evaluating performance. At one time the assembly plant in Tarrytown, N.Y., year in and year out produced the poorest quality cars of all 22 GM U.S. assembly plants. In some instances, Tarrytown cars were so poorly built the dealers refused to accept them." Yet because of consistently low production costs, DeLorean contends, the plant manager got one of the highest bonuses among all GM managers...