Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...alcoholic's world is a strange one, you should understand. I guess different people react to the disease in different ways; my father's method was to stake out one small corner of our estate as "The Bunker" (we even made him a sign for it, "enabling" his behavior as the textbooks would tell you family members might), a dimlylit dungeon in which he hoarded his emotions like a dragon might guard his treasure...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions-- that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...recent emergency housing act signed by Gov. William F. Weld '66 is a conscientious method to case price-fixing itself out of our community. This reprieve provides a two-year adjustment period for the elderly and those in dire financial straits who inhabit rent-controlled apartments...
...bottom line is that whatever the particular merits of the Chechen independence movement, force does not provide an answer to Russia's post-imperial pangs. The sooner Russia understands that, the sooner some other method can be arrived...
...true movie star: the charisma to draw emotion from the viewer, the technique to express delicate shadings of that emotion. "Winona," says Armstrong, "has huge technique for someone her age." At the same time, she adds , "like the best actors, she intuitively thinks into her characters." It's a method both more direct -- from her eyes to your heart, grand old movie-style -- and more subtle than the high-voltage, I- scream-in-your-face style favored by most young actors. They are heavy metal; Winona is unplugged...