Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the more open method of selecting candidates will provide a jolt for his lagging reforms. As he explained during the Supreme Soviet that convened in November to approve the procedures, "If we do not carry out a political reform to back up the processes that are now under way in the economy, the restructuring drive will inevitably begin to falter...
...students' commitment is anything but minimal: classes are four nights a week, two hours each night. The intensive method requires the students to miss as few days as possible, a difficult task given the inconsistent nature of their daily schedules...
...This method of retort, I fear, has been largely effective, and not only in this instance. It has not succeeded in preventing the sensitizing of language or the broadening of the curriculum, but it has succeeded in stripping these actions of any moral force. It is presumed that if the aggrieved party is placated, it is done not out of a sense of remorse, but rather under pressure...
...they're black." Don says Geffen told the band to whiten up and lighten up "not because they were a racist record company. They were only reflecting a basic reality of the music business." But then, deflecting such realities, changing the perspectives and finding a soulful congeniality is the method behind the band's mad music...
Bush promises to be different. Although he adopted the Reagan method during the campaign, stage-managing his every appearance and sequestering himself from the press, he held more news conferences in the ten weeks following the election than Reagan did in his last two years in office. "I think you will see him act as President very much as he has been in the last few weeks," says White House spokesman Marlin Fitzwater...