Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...time, I was pretty outspoken,"Hanselman admits. "It wasn't that I was againstbringing women up in the Council, it's just that Ithought that the method taken was exclusionary.Men have just as much a stake in it as women, andIA...
...there is a problem with this method. It is only effective when you write to those people to whom you've given keys. How do you give the key to someone? E-mail it to them. But e-mail isn't private unless you encrypt it. We've come full circle without accomplishing anything...
...last two decades, the United States has been obsessed with hardening punishments as the prime method for deterring crime. States have moved to institute the death penalty, and the federal government has sought "three-strikes-you're-out" legislation for convicted criminals. But only gun control has had the proven effect of increasing security-and life expectancy...
...study, "Mozart: A Life" (HarperCollins; 640 pages; $35), Maynard Solomon does more to humanize the composer than any biographer before him. For two centuries, TIME critic Michael Walsh says, listeners have been unable to reconcile Mozart's ineffable music with his bawdy childishness: "The easiest and most common method has been to regard Mozart as a sort of child god whose works welled up spontaneously." But Solomon's sharply-written, layered chapters document the grown composer's own psychological caving-in to the legend of his prodigious childhood. Says Walsh: "Mozart and the members of his circle come vividly alive...
...more practical reason--and practical concerns have a place even among matters of principle--the botched walk-out was a poorly chosen method of expression. It may discourage controversial and influential speakers from coming to Harvard...