Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...professed desire to "right-size" government. Immediately after proposing the pay cut, Bush called for "a streamlined reorganization of the Executive Branch through a consolidation of agencies and bureaus that will enable us to do our job better." He struck at the right culprit -- the bloated bureaucracy -- but his method is madness. "As Presidents have sought control of the governments they oversee, they have added increasingly redundant layers of middle managers at the expense of those who do the real work," says Paul Light, a public affairs professor at the University of Minnesota. "In government the classic organizational pyramid...
...observing this mechanism in traditional poetry," he says, "you have an empirical tool for figuring out the poet's method of composition...
...rejects the scenario, believing that a general election on a one man-one vote basis should first be held and that the resulting legislature should then create the constitution. Since the ANC represents over half the population, this last method would give the organization a dominant influence in determining the powers and the structure of the new government...
Beginning this fall, the school's administration will decide all seating assignments, replacing the traditional "first come, first serve" method of previous years...
...dependents who become pregnant after they join the system--in essence permitting a woman who joins welfare with a family of four to adequately provide for her group, but penalizing her should she increase the size of the initial family. This is not reproductive Stalinism--it is simply a method by which we ensure that fewer children are born into the mire of poverty by selfish mothers...