Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ideal fine arts department is one that is not quite organized in the sense of a centralized method of study," says Shearman, who is also the Boardman professor of fine arts. "There is a danger in an intellectual climate where disciplines form antagonistic groups...
...says a problem arose in the past when areas of study were forced to "centralize" under a particular method. After World War II, Harvard identified itself with style criticism and connoisseurship, allowing art conservation and Spanish and medevial art studies to lapse...
...whole in this country," says Dr. Hook. "We don't know if youngsters in low-risk areas are just not having sex or if the virus hasn't got there yet." Without better information, researchers might find out only when more people start dying. That is not a scientific method that any country can afford...
...political gambit, the method is tried and true. If you are an unpopular Vice President, refurbish your image by deriding an occupational group with an even lower approval rating than your own. Spiro Agnew popularized the ploy back in 1969 with his bitter denunciations of the news media. Following the same playbook, Vice President Dan Quayle -- a lawyer -- wangled an invitation to the American Bar Association convention in Atlanta and last week used the forum to mount a blistering attack on the legal profession...
...automatic door opener so that he could let the dog out each morning without leaving his bed. As an adult, he invented a system to dim lights simply by thinking erotic thoughts. Even PCR was an attempt to devise a less laborious way of copying DNA than the method used by living cells. "When I saw how nature does it, I thought, 'That's totally crazy.' " he says...