Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...that a Harvard-funded women's center is the proper method for fully incorporating women into the Harvard community is by no means as "obvious" as the staff contends. Rather than bring women's (and gender) issues into the mainstream of the University, a women's center will only serve to divide and marginalize such concerns further...
...Wasp stands in for black vs. white. Actors love Mob movies because, now that the western is dead, the genre gives them one last chance to strut their maleness in a traditional setting. They can act like cowboys without having to ride a horse. And, as avatars of the Method, they get to rant in words James Dean never spoke onscreen. Mandatory Mob-movie dialogue: "Shut the f up!" "No, you shut...
...quit a well-paying job as a Teledyne engineer to try to solve "the chip problem" out of a makeshift laboratory in the living room of his three- bedroom house in Reseda, Calif. He used all his $10,000 savings before he finally figured out a method to mount a series of tiny computer components on a silicon chip. "I had setbacks, but I never had any doubts," he recalls. "When the inventive drive comes, you have to follow it." Despite his continuing research and perseverance, Hyatt earned less than $40,000 last year as an aerospace consultant...
THERE is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...sport does have its hazards. Gliding along on a pair of molded thermoplastic blades equipped with high-performance ball bearings, skaters can reach speeds of 30 m.p.h. or more, which means stopping is no easy feat. Learning to slow down smoothly -- one method is to lean back on the skates' rear-mounted brakes -- takes lots of practice and usually a few spills. Novices should wear hand and knee guards and probably helmets as well. The most common injury: broken wrists from pitching forward onto the pavement...