Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...keep his head down, according to charges brought last week by the U.S. Attorney's office in Manhattan. During those 11 years, the office said, the baby-faced Iguchi made an astronomical 30,000 unauthorized transactions while trying to cover up losses that ultimately ballooned to $1.1 billion. His method was simple: whenever he lost money as a government-bond trader, Iguchi allegedly plucked and sold bonds from Daiwa's own accounts or those of its customers, and then forged documents to make the trades look like authorized transactions. He seemingly sought no gain for himself other than to conceal...
...real lollipop occurs around 7:18 of the last track, when the separated violin sections compete for prominence on individual speakers -- absolutely sublime stuff. One only wishes that Deutsche Grammophon's tonmeisters would take a lesson from Mercury's recording team and dispense with the "forest of mikes" method, which often seems to obscure more than elucidate...
...course, the politics of the theatrical need not always be retrogressive. For instance, Strategic Offense's "intervention" at Government 1091's opening meeting was a skillful method of debunking the baseless legitimacy conferred on pundits like George Will by constant exposure in the press. Yet even this agitprop risks impotence if spectacle becomes an end instead of a means. Without a coherent platform of action, groups like Strategic Offense will quickly become irrelevant to serious reform...
...experiment led him to formulate his famous Law of Similars. If a substance produces certain debilitating symptoms in a healthy person, he reasoned, then a small dose could be used to treat the same symptoms in an ill patient. Hahnemann called his new method of healing "homeopathy," from the Greek homoios (like) and pathos (suffering). Using his seven children as guinea pigs, he began testing hundreds of plants and minerals, eventually compiling the list of substances and symptoms that forms the core of today's Homeopathic Pharmacopoeia...
...upset and appalled at their outburst," said Scott Singer '98. "I support strongly their right to free speech but interrupting the class is definitely the wrong method to state their concerns...