Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...most common method is the chairift, a mechanized contraption which carries you in an open seat hanging from a cable about 50 feet off the ground. The cable moves, the chair moves and you move up the mountain. It sounds ideal. With chairlifts, as with just about everything, however, the reality isn't as good as the ideal...
...snowmobile method is environmentally unfriendly. It also leaves you with the problem of how to get back your snowmobile after you leave it at the top of the mountain and ski down. (With the helicopter, you hire a pilot to meet you at the bottom of the hill...
Should the U.S.-led troops also disarm the war bands? U.N. Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali says yes, but Powell calls disarmament only "one method that could be used" and adds that the troops can hardly round up "every last AK-47" in Somalia. So, might the warring clans create anarchy and famine again after the U.S.-U.N. troops leave? The hope is that the combat troops can pacify the country enough for a smaller, "regular" U.N. peacekeeping force to take over. Though the U.S. would like to begin pulling out by Bill Clinton's Inauguration Jan. 20, Secretary...
...committee's report states that "data from the first year of the new method shows a sizable increase in the number of requested and successful transfers...
...traditional religion, however, and a superstitious pagan often lurks underneath. Many Russians light candles in church nowadays the way they formerly paid their Communist Party dues -- as a kind of insurance, just in case. Belief in miracles remains strong in a nation once fervently dedicated to the scientific method. How else to explain the extraordinary following of psychic healers like Anatoli Kashpirovsky and Alan Chumak, who held audiences spellbound with their televised seances a few years ago? Even sophisticated Muscovites rushed to buy supposedly energized issues of newspapers and placed jars of water by their TV screens to absorb...