Word: methodic
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Director of Athletics John P. Reardon, Jr. '60 will make the final decision on which method to use, according to Richard J. Hemnstein, professor of Psychology and chairman of the committee Reardon could not be reached for comment last night...
...Harvard-Danforth Center are in the enviable and powerful position of taking for granted these assumptions--about control and responsibility and effectiveness. You have to understand the persuasive power of not needing to assert that something matters. It's part of the subtle power of Professor Christensen's case method. He likes to quote the Quaker saying, "God is in the details." If in the details, then in the whole enterprise. The stakes are high in every case he uses, and the teachers in his class are waving their arms to get air time...
Practically since Inauguration Day, the Reagan Administration has grumbled that the Government's statistical methods overstate the nation's population of poor people. The reason: the figures take into account only cash income and ignore the value of noncash benefits such as food stamps, free or discounted school lunches, public housing and subsidized medical care. But a new Census Bureau study released last week measured poverty both ways from 1979 to 1982 and found a sharp increase under either method...
...those programs were too bewildering, there were exhibitors at Soft-con promising to help customers separate the software wheat from the fast-growing pile of programmed chaff. ITM, of Walnut Creek, Calif, demonstrated a new computerized method for obtaining instant critical reviews of 4,000 products. Stewart Brand, publisher of the Whole Earth Catalogs, announced the first issue of the Whole Earth Software Review, a quarterly magazine that will pick and pan products. Another publisher, Software Digest, unveiled a $14.95 Ratings Book, which compares 30 word-processing programs written for the IBM Personal Computer. Says Spokesman Harold Poliskin: "We want...
...main difference between him and the Pop artists with whom he was associated in the 1960s. It was not obvious at once. When he first emerged as a painter, it was with images that looked utterly deadpan: paintings of ocean liners, enlarged from postcards and publicity brochures. But their method was peculiarly systematic, a parody of system, in fact. Squaring the postcard image up to canvas size, Morley would work on it patch by patch, sometimes upside down, stippling away so that each bit of water or hull looked abstract to him, as patterns do when they are isolated...