Word: methodic
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Harvard will receive both a minimum yearly royalty, and royalties from the sale of goods produced using the Gilbert method...
...querulous species, humankind, to correct its deficiencies by the most radical process of all: thinking. In The Road to Wigan Pier he expressed the belief that "economic injustice will stop the moment we want it to stop, and no sooner, and if we genuinely want it to stop the method adopted hardly matters." "Political chaos," he continued to stress, "is connected with the decay of language . . . one can probably bring about some improvement by starting at the verbal end." To that end, Orwell devoted his life. His work endures, as lucid and vigorous as the day it was written...
...with words is to surrender to them. When you think of a concrete object, you think wordlessly, and then, if you want to describe the thing you have been visualizing you probably hunt about till you find the exact words that seem to fit." The alternative method promises treachery: "When you think of something abstract you are more inclined to use words from the start, and unless you make a conscious effort to prevent it, the existing dialect will come rushing in and do the job for you, at the expense of blurring or even changing your meaning...
Presumably the hecklers have a strong belief that the Reagan Administration is pursuing wrong courses of action; but how can they further their views in this manner? As Weinberger himself said at one point, the final method of American democracy is not protests but elections--a method which everyone, including the hecklers, should be strongly encouraged to use. What would these people do to their opposition if they found themselves in power? Would they permit free speech...
...method of play in the first 45 minutes was really sensational," said Shattuck. The coach was particularly pleased with the scoring by midfielders Brack and Hooper. "They looked like a very, very good soccer team," he added...