Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under the surface, things weren't so smooth. A memo addressed in March to a lower-level bureaucrat in the Selective Service System from an assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Criminal Division raised some concerns over the planned method of enforcement. At that point, Selective Service had not yet cross-checked the hundreds of thousands of registration cards with the hundreds of thousands of social security files to see which males born since 1960 had not filled out their registration forms...
...commitment to the "modes of inquiry" approach, it is clear from Keller's narrative that the flexibility advocates had little or no chance. Originally opposing the main sweep of the recommendations from within the Core task force, those who felt students should be able to choose substance, rather than method-oriented courses proposed a series of "limited bypass" and other amendments...
Students in the course say they are attracted to the course because of its case-study method--similar to that used in B.School courses--and its speakers program, which brings prominent business leaders to lecture and eat lunch with students...
...method employs a very low-powered laser, somewhat like the one used to read price codes at supermarket check-out counters, and directs it at sags, bags and furrows. The full course often to 16 treatments can cost as much as $1,000, and considerably more when the recommended monthly "booster" sessions are included. Yet, says Dr. John Munna, chairman of the A.S.P.R.S. committee for false and deceptive advertising, "all it does is run an electric current through the skin that heats up body tissue and produces swelling. When you produce swelling in the area of a wrinkle, the wrinkle...
What is patently established in Different Seasons is that Stepheo King is not effectively impassioned with Jailbreaks and Nazis. Nor is he overly inspired by Peter Straub--the author of Ghost Story--whose style King emulates in the fourth and final story. "A Winter's Tale: The Breathing Method...