Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another problem is that Hirsch strays from his proposed selection method of avoiding general or expert information. In his chapter on the Conventions of Written English, undoubtedly the worst in the volume, he includes entries like...
...share their best researchers and ideas with rivals. But retired Admiral Bobby Inman, former deputy director of the CIA who headed MCC until 1986, melted their resistance. Now under the stewardship of former Texas Instruments executive Grant Dove, MCC has brought to market its first products, including a new method for connecting chips to circuit boards and software that uses artificial intelligence to speed the development of complex microcircuits...
Take Chris Renner, 26, who helped create Food Partnership Inc. outside Los Angeles. It troubled him that food banks were spending a fortune in transport fees to collect donations. With the help of the California Trucking Association and United Way, he worked out a method for trucks to transport food between donors and food banks when they were returning empty from a long haul. So far, the program has carried nearly 4 million lbs. of food and saved the food banks $55,000 in trucking fees...
...family- planning efforts in Mexico, Kenya and the Philippines, while Muslim fundamentalists have done the same in Iran, Egypt and Pakistan. Still, religious objections need not entirely thwart population planning. Where such resistance is encountered, vigorous campaigns should be mounted to promote natural birth-control techniques, including the rhythm method and fertility delay through breast feeding...
Riverside's elaborate hunt for William Sloane Coffin's successor typifies the method by which most of America's 300,000 Protestant congregations, large and small, find spiritual leaders. Lay members serving on a search committee may spend a year in unpaid toil, scanning l00 dossiers, listening to sermon tapes and making covert scouting expeditions to hear preachers. At Riverside, 5,000 people were asked to submit names and 250 prospects were contacted...