Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year Harvard received letters offering it religious diatribes or unsolicited individual world views, imploring it to endorse a chain letter, inquiring on the best method to do a math problem, and requesting to use its contacts in the right wing to start a revolution--in addition to routine pleas for a "little chunk of your large endowment." They all made their way to the office of Jim Ball, a public information officer in Harvard's News Office...
WATCHING STANLEY JAFFE'S Without A Trace is like watching a professor scrape a piece of chalk on the blackboard: you want to see what he's going to say, but the method gives you an uncontrollable urge to turn away and leave. In Without a Trace, Jaffe's style of filming and connecting the plot often deters from his poignant and broadly applicable theme...
...measuring the debt service payments for 1983, we go beyond the conventional method, which includes interest payments and amortization of principal for medium-and long-term debts. Morgan Guaranty also counts short-term debt, because a country that faces a liquidity problem should not assume that short-term credits will routinely be renewed...
...advocates argue that it is the best available method of birth control: not only is the drug nearly 100% effective, but it has to be taken just four times a year. Depo-Provera has been used by 10 million women over the past 15 years in more than 80 nations, including some in Western Europe. It has been approved by the World Health Organization, the American College of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the International Planned Parenthood Federation, which has widely distributed the drug in Third World countries. Despite its popularity overseas, however, Depo-Provera is not approved as a contraceptive...
Though Monroe left an estate valued at more than half a million dollars, with continuing income from movie royalties, there is speculation that her interests have been mishandled since her death. The major beneficiaries of her will-notably the late Lee Strasberg, the Method acting coach, who was a father figure to the actress, and a clinic selected by Monroe's psychiatrist, Marianne Kris-had received paltry sums. Then, just in time for the 20th anniversary of her death last August, a Los Angeles lawyer-agent, Roger Richman, won the right to represent the Monroe estate as the sole...