Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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However, this is another arena in which proper education is vital, because high condom failure rate is due primarily to breakage stemming from improper use. In addition, failure rate for preventing pregnancy seems so high because couples say that condoms are their method of contraception except for the one, or two or however many instances in which they did not actually...
...Beatty is "ecstatic" about becoming a father and has even embraced the Lamaze method (the child is due in three weeks). Bening burbles that Beatty will be "an attentive, caring father." He enjoys the tabloid stories his new domesticity has inspired: "I've invented a birthing tank, we've enrolled our daughter in an English boarding school, I've been visiting sick babies...
Because they are denied their legal right to organize and bargain collectively with growers, farm workers, especially grape workers, earn meager wages while working under miserable conditions. Many grape growers use the piece rate method to underpay their workers. As a result, grape growers often earn as little as $2 an hour...
That was then. Glory days, but as the years and the story's somewhat invertebrate plot progress -- Keillor's authentically rural narrative method is infinite digression -- the pickings thin out. Like the rest of WLT's hayseeds and gallus snappers, the Shepherd Boys begin to lose listeners. In their prime, Keillor relates, they "could kill a quart like it was lemonade and and then they would jump in the sack with anything in high heels, hop out and sing 'The Old Rugged Cross,' and feel so good, they'd jump right back in." Maybe they still could, given the chance...
...Movie That Changed My Life, edited by David Rosenberg, introduces a new and provocative method of considering film. Rosenberg has collected a diverse series of accounts by contemporary authors remembering their most powerful response to a film. The essays reflect upon a movie's personal significance to them when they first saw it and now, upon re-viewing...