Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Many departmental offerings incorporate the same methods of learning that Core courses do. Professors may not spend half a lecture explaining their method of analysis in a higher-level class, but the concepts are there and are being applied--at least as much as in any Core class...
...November 8, the citizens of Cambridge will be asked to vote on an issue of vital importance. Question 5 addresses the situation between Israel and the Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, purporting to advance a method of achieving peace. We at Harvard-Radcliffe Hillel believe that the referendum is misleading and would in fact impede the peace process in the Middle East...
Soon a more complex laundering method was introduced. BCCI allegedly began to wire drug money deposited in its branches to accounts in foreign banks, using major New York City institutions as unwitting intermediaries. Once the funds were overseas, BCCI allegedly used them to buy certificates of deposit at banks in France, Britain, Luxembourg, Uruguay, Panama and the Bahamas. Using the CDs as collateral, BCCI then issued phony loans for slightly smaller amounts to the agents' Panamanian account. Once again, the agents gave the Colombians signed blank checks drawn against the account. BCCI collected the CDs as "payment" for the loans...
...Paul Kagan Associates, a California-based research firm, found that the typical VCR household rents 4 1/2 movies a month, and such viewing has almost certainly cuts into network ratings. More insidiously, the VCR -- and its high-tech sidekick, the remote-control unit -- has encouraged a new, more active method of TV viewing known as "grazing." A survey published last month by Channels magazine found that 75% of all TV homes have remote-control buttons, and nearly half of the button pushers say they switch channels frequently during programming...
...dividend payments by corporations should be eliminated. In many European countries, companies are taxed only on retained earnings and not on profits distributed as dividends. This is not the case in the U.S., where dividends are taxed first as corporate income and then as personal income. The European method favors dividend payments and makes stocks more attractive to investors; it should be adopted in the U.S. At the same time, we should limit the federal tax subsidies of speculative corporate debt by reducing, to some extent, the deductibility of interest for overleveraged nonfinancial companies...