Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...care for them. Sergiev's duties includes tuning and playing the bells, and he took to the task with fervor. While Turk claims that the bells "could not be tuned," they in fact could, and this is why Sergiev field notches into the bells: this is the only method of tuning bronze bells...
...Procedural recommendations have been made in order to assure all individuals a fair hearing in sexual misconduct cases. Changes include the concurrent writing of statements about an incident, the definition of the roles of senior advisors and senior tutors in order to avoid conflict of interest and a method of cooperation with the legal system in order both to avoid decriminalizing through concealment serious offenses and to insure the right of the accused in a trial. Codifying procedure provides a solid foundation for disciplinary response to sexual misconduct cases...
Crane incorporates this method into his core class, "Classical Greek Literature and 5th Century Athens;" this teaching technique integrates the artistic and archaeological records with the literary ones. Rather than imposing a dogmatic approach and theory on this material, Crane's overall objective is to motivate any museum visitor to use the information: "...to reorganize from bottom up, what issues we are addressing...to change the possibilities" of study...
...attributes this success to the database's open-ended possibilities for creativity and exploration, rather than its maintenance of academic dogma, both in method and content. Crane believes that most students are "sick of text books and canned answer...
...last year the International Amateur Athletic Federation, which governs track-and-field contests, decided to go back to something closer to the original method: during a routine physical, a team doctor simply and discreetly takes note of an athlete's genitals. In a report in last week's Journal of the American Medical Association, the organization proclaimed its satisfaction with the practice and called upon groups governing other sports to follow suit. Timed to coincide with the Winter Olympics, the report is sure to embarrass the International Olympic Committee, which remains wedded to chromosome testing...