Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...before the Harvard Yard exploded with student protest. "There was intense questioning then," she recalls. "I had a law degree, but I hadn't really been encouraged to think. And Harvard was just facing up to the fact that there were inequalities of sex and race." Also, the Harvard method of teaching was different, emphasizing discussion and examining unresolved ambiguities...
Until Madonna is moved to lead a rally to the local garbage dump, Gans favors educational efforts like the First Vote campaign sponsored by People for the American Way. Its classroom instruction method, in which teachers devote a social studies period to the electoral process and register students right in the classroom, is based on a Dade County, Fla., program that registers around 12,000 high school students every year. Meanwhile Channel % One, the advertiser-supported television service that is provided to public and private schools, is planning a mock election in which its 7.1 million viewers, assisted...
Ross Perot enjoys comparisons with Harry Truman and Franklin Roosevelt. He sees himself as a can-do guy in a can't-do era -- as a feisty straight-talker like Truman, as a bold experimenter like F.D.R., whose plan for rescuing capitalism ("Take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it and try another; but above all try something") is echoed in Perot's call for "action, action, action." Perot may never be ranked with Truman and Roosevelt -- and of course he would have to win first -- but he already personifies an enduring strain in American life...
Keohane admits that this strategy has itsproblems. "Given that method, there are usuallylow odds at the outset of attracting desirablefaculty members," he says...
This, of course, is the coaches' preferred method to beating the budget crunch...