Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Back in the 1640s, when the current method of financing public schools was developed, if a man had money, he put it into his land. There were no IRAs or Social Security. With property the best gauge of wealth, it made sense to pay for public schooling out of property taxes. Nor did anyone wonder about the wisdom of yoking schools to local real estate values; if nothing else, taxpayers knew exactly how their money was being spent...
...proposed to do away with education-funding property taxes without naming any alternative revenue source. To the applause of some onlookers and the horror of others, Engler took them up on it, promising to find some way to make up the money. Until the vote last week affirmed his method, the possibility loomed that public education in Michigan, penniless, might screech to a halt -- along with Engler's political career...
...closer to 2 million. Nobody took much notice, however, because the technique is prone to errors in the kind of pumice found in Java. Curtis' dates would remain uncertain for more than two decades, until he and Swisher could re-evaluate the pumice with a new, far more accurate method...
...another name). As for fears of declining quality of care, a more cogent criticism would be that the Administration has made the benefits it would guarantee to everybody more generous than most insurance plans now provide -- raising a serious question of whether the plan contains anything like an adequate method of paying for them...
...unexpected method of teaching introductory history that Forker encountered is not an isolated occurrence...