Word: methodic
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...instructor, he taught one course with two sections each semester. The classes, among the most popular at the school, dealt with internal and external considerations of management. Like most teacher at the school, Dukakis used the case study method--presenting a hypothetical management problem to students, and then conducting the class as a question and answer session. Several of his former students credit Dukakis says he used some of his personal experiences as case studies--he cites one difficult negotiating session he had with state police--but stresses that he relied mostly on other examples...
...outcome of those conversations remains unpredictable, though Fox and other College officials say they will hesitate to significantly change the current lottery system unless a clear consensus for another method develops...
...hope of its attainment. Taken to its logical extreme, the idea of institutional neutrality erodes the University's reason for being. Progress implies change blended with continuity. Isn't one of the Core Curriculum's primary purposes to provide a common set of (Western) values, a common method of approaching relevant moral and political issues? Isn't the message of Derek Bok's fundraisers that the schooling of students in American values has become increasingly urgent in a period of federal entrenchment and international complexity...
...churches, charities or extended families, might have to concern themselves with helping the old and the disabled is relatively new in history. Imperial Germany in 1889 enacted the first pension plan, financed by equal contributions from employers and employees, largely because Chancellor Otto von Bismarck saw it as a method to wean the masses away from socialism. As he explained candidly: "Whoever has a pension for his old age is far more content and far easier to handle than one who has no such prospect." Similar plans were adopted by most other major industrial nations over the next three decades...
...State Alexander Haig was even more blunt: "We consider SALT II to be dead and have so informed the Soviets." (The treaty has not actually been formally rejected, however, and is still technically before the Senate.) But one high Administration official indicated that the U.S. may find some method of accepting SALT II without formally ratifying it. Internal discussions are under way, he said, about working out some "mutual restraints," which would be similar to the SALT I and SALT II restrictions now being informally observed, for both sides to honor while negotiations are in process...