Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...long-brewing feud, last Friday the White House and some members of Congress reached a tentative agreement about the census for the year 2000. Next year the census will be administered two different ways to two cities. In Columbia, South Carolina, residents will be subjected to the traditional census method, which is comprised of mailings and head counters who travel from house to house. At the same time in Sacramento, California, the new counting method, based on statistical sampling, that the Census takers have tried to implement since the 1990 census was taken will be tested. While this sounds quite...
...would a simple count cause so much controversy? It all stems from statistical sampling, the basis of the new method of census taking. Of course, statistical sampling does not sound that new to anyone who has had to sit through the QRR exam. For those of you who may have forgotten, through statistical sampling, census takers would directly count 90 percent of households and then extrapolate that data to look at the non-responders. As a result, the country could potentially save $900 million...
...seemed not to be standard, modern cellos, but rather like those of Handel's time, having a much thinner, more delicate sound. Most of the strings played their instruments in the baroque style, holding their bows partway up the dowel instead of by the frog, as is the modern method...
...suggest the violence in some interesting ways--most notably the scene in which Tamora, Queen of the Goths, and her sons Demitrius and Chiron, seek audience with Titus: it's transplanted into Titus' bath, accentuating the play's obsession with human flesh. Indeed, as if to further this alternative method of presenting this obsession, nearly all of the principal characters at some point or other are at least partially undressed. However, music, sound and lighting, much more than the actual set, are used to evoke an eerie, faintly unearthly atmosphere, and do so effectively. This is more than...
Currently, chickens are sprayed with chlorine and quick-chilled to retard bacteria. Inspectors touch, sniff and sometimes test animal carcasses for contamination. Another method, in which bacteria are killed with zaps of radiation, has proved too controversial for widespread use in this country...