Word: methodic
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...book The University: An Owner'sManual, Geyser University Professor ofEconomics Henry Rosovsky states that the Coreensures that "all [students] learn the ways ofthinking or method of analysis associated withthese comprehensive and significant modes ofinquiry...
...despite the emphasis on method over matter,the Core Committee is unlikely "to extend thedoctrine of `free substitutability' to areasbeyond Science A and B," according to Dean ofUndergraduate Education Lawrence Buell, who sitson the committee with nine other faculty members...
About 40% to 45% of the estimated 500 million pounds of perc produced annually is used by cleaners. In an effort to reduce exposure to perc, the Environmental Protection Agency, in collaboration with trade groups, has launched a four-week test of a new cleaning method that eschews all chemical solvent and depends instead on biodegradable soaps along with heat, steam and pressing. The experiment uses clothing volunteered by government employees in Washington and New York City. First up was EPA chief William Reilly, who turned over his regulation blue suit...
House stereotypes will not return under this system because most students will still be assigned in the non-ordered choice method. The problem with ordered choice was that certain houses had almost all their spaces ranked first by a homogeneous group of people. Enhanced choice will not allow such homogeneous groups to fully make up a house. Most likely, no more than 43.75 percent of a house will be composed of students who designated that house as their first choice...
...long charged that many Japanese firms doing business in the U.S. artificially inflate the value of Stateside deliveries to reduce the profits -- hence the taxes -- of their American subsidiaries. Now one of Japan's largest consumer-electronics manufacturers, Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., has agreed to a new pricing method designed to head off questions through advance consultations. Matsushita, whose consumer-appliance brands include Panasonic and National, became the first major Japanese firm to adopt the new system. If approved by President-elect Bill Clinton, who has claimed during the campaign that foreign firms were underpaying U.S. taxes, it could well...