Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...better understanding than that ... By Christian unity, I do not mean some kind of soft uniformity ... But it is not just a loose federation of people prepared to cooperate either. It is something deeper and more organic than that ... In the long term, [the best approach] may be a method of reconciling the churches by stages, so that the ministry and the sacraments are recognized-that will be a model of how unity might be achieved...
Fairchild Republic had tried several management programs before, but had been unhappy with all of them. The new method of role playing and teaching by example seems to produce the best results. Says Linda Dwyer, supervisor of training and development: "The other programs were too abstract. They were entertaining, like the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders, but they didn't get the ball downfield...
...order to shield U.S. land-based missiles from a Soviet first strike, Reagan last week told the Pentagon that he favors what is known as the "dense pack" method for basing the new MX. Up to 100 MX missiles would be clustered in deep, hardened silos within a 12-sq.-mi. area. Enemy warheads coming into such a small area would cause the first of them to explode the others. Theoretically, some of the MX missiles in the dense pack would survive and be able to launch through the rubble after the attack...
...other form of bankruptcy under the law, chapter thirteen, is even easier. It resembles the C.C.C.S. method and provides for the debtor to pay all or part of his debts over a period of three years under a plan approved by the court...
C.C.C.S. is a nonprofit organization sponsored by banks, loan companies, retailers and other businesses that grant credit. It has some 200 offices a11 over the U.S. and deals with about 110,000 cases a year. Its method is very simple: it makes the insolvent debtor give up all his credit cards and promise not to do any more borrowing without permission. Then it works out a survival budget that will enable the client to pay back part of his debt every month. It persuades the creditors to wait for their money and then assumes responsibility for dividing and distributing...