Word: methodic
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...oppose Gramm-Rudman and any other attempt to write the balanced budget into law, not because we disagree with the goals of such a plan, but because such bills say nothing about the method through which those goals will be achieved. Both the increased power of the President under the bill, which may include a "line-item veto" provision, and the possibility that many valuable programs will be needlessly cut, are unacceptable...
Ideally, government exists to help those in need, not those in power. The economic reality of austerity, under the ominous shadow of federal budget deficits, enunciates the anti-welfare sentiments of the majority of Americans. The politics of austerity demand that we search for a pragmatic method of achieving social justice...
...regulation time, the squads were deadlocked at zero, so the officials called for an "Arizona tiebreaker" to decide the winner. The tiebreaking method gives each team a chance to score in four downs from the opponent's 10. The team that comes away with more points is the winner...
...said Anthony Fauci, a leading AIDS investigator at the U.S. National Institutes of Health (NIH). AIDS researchers in both the U.S. and France also censured the Paris team for holding a press conference before they had presented their findings in a scientific forum. "I'm very disturbed by their method of announcing their work," said Dr. Paul Volberding, head of the AIDS clinic at San Francisco General Hospital. "They're approaching it in the most irresponsible way possible...
Students in the program spend five hours a week in six-person tutorials, each led by a faculty member experienced in the question-answer Socratic method. (For more on the tutorial experience, see accompanying story, Page...