Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...little known real estate developer with a $52 million offer to buy the faltering Dade Savings and Loan (assets: $2.2 billion). State regulators were happy someone was willing to take over the sick thrift. Paul renamed the S&L and within a few years sent its profits zooming. His method: investing CenTrust's assets heavily in junk bonds, many of which he bought from Michael Milken at Drexel Burnham Lambert. By the late 1980s the payoff from CenTrust's $1.35 billion portfolio of junk made the S&L the region's most profitable thrift. But as the market value...
Latin America's history is filled with government reversals, but rarely at the ballot box. Coups, revolutions and invasions -- often organized by Washington -- are more common means. Ever since the trauma of Viet Nam, the U.S. has sought a less direct and costly method to have its way. Where military force could still do the trick cost effectively, the U.S. was willing to use it, as in Grenada and Panama. But in Nicaragua, wittingly or not, Washington stumbled on an arm's-length policy: wreck the economy and prosecute a long and deadly proxy war until the exhausted natives overthrow...
Tram says New Pathways succeeds in teachingstudents to be more compassionate. In addition,its case study method stresses actual learninginstead of rote memorization...
Rather than rebutting his critics, though Rosovsky generally tries to take the middle ground, arguing that the benefits justify the flaws in the system. None of the University's critics, either from the right or from the left, are likely to be won over by this method, but they may learn some interesting historical details in the process...
...justify the lack of Asian-American faculty with the generalization that the "pool of qualified minority scholars is too small." At a meeting last spring, Dean of the Faculty A. Michael Spence told the Minority Student Alliance (MSA) that academic fellowships for minority students represented a quick method of removing at least some economic barriers that led to homogeneous faculties. Spence emphasized that the Mellon Minority Undergraduate Fellowship in particular would be a long-term aid in increasing the number of minority faculty members...