Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...capital, Knight arranged for Grum-bly of the Energy Department to attend the plant's ribbon-cutting ceremony, at which he touted the firm and suggested it could qualify for up to $200 million in grants from his department. When Molten sought equal billing with incinerators as a cleanup method for toxic waste, Browner met with the company's top executives and later signed off on a regulatory classification, rare for a process not yet in full commercial operation. It was Knight, congressional investigators say, who helped land a $460,000 Energy Department contract to demonstrate Molten's technology...
...this case, Hack's strict ideas about sexual modesty) conflicts with the university's desire to toss all views into an educational blender? Unlike students of yesteryear, who pushed for diversity with scruffy demonstrations on behalf of minorities, Hack and four other Orthodox Jews have chosen a thoroughly contemporary method of attack: mount a p.r. campaign...
...threat of Other People is real. And unavoidable, unless one adopts the J.D. Salinger method of hermetically-sealed containment. But most people probably prefer a bit of relational activity in their lives. So if one exists in this world, Other People will come: by plane, train, or automobile, via e-mail, snail mail, or personal courier, over the telephone line if that's what it takes. And as I return to the College for this, the fall of my junior year, the press of the real world and my responsibilities to others therein is felt ever more keenly...
Martin also plans to extend the "new pathways" educational method, which is a case-based system, into the third- and fourth-year curriculum, when students move to hospital rotations...
...last, a sensible, unbiased article about spanking [BEHAVIOR, Aug. 25]! It is refreshing to see someone concede what informed parents have known all along: that spanking in and of itself is not abuse when done properly. Rather, this method of discipline serves to let the child know that his or her actions have consequences other than "Now don't do that again, Johnny," which goes in one ear and out the other. Undisciplined children grow up to be undisciplined young adults without concern for the rights of others. Those who fell for the New Age philosophy against spanking...