Word: methodic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...main lines of politicized inquiry converge in the Modern Language Association, the 30,000-member group of scholars, many of them devoted to grievance politics as a critical method. For a while in the early '90s, reporters would cover its annual conference as a kind of fascinating academic comedy club, where nutty professors delivered papers on "Jane Austen and the Masturbating Girl." Three years ago, when Alter's group came together, some of the biggest names in American letters signed on, including scholars Alfred Kazin and Roger Shattuck, novelist Cynthia Ozick, poet Donald Hall and the late Nobel laureate Joseph...
ARES VALLIS, Mars: That old space-travel cliche -- Houston, we have touchdown -- couldn't really apply to the Mars Pathfinder's inelegant method of landing by slamming into the planet at 55 miles per hour, then bouncing like a basketball up to as much as 150 feet in the air until coming to rest. Still, controllers at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory were pleased. "It's been wonderfully dull," Flight Director Rob Manning said after the lander completed its seven-month journey. Whether the craft survived the impact intact was not immediately known, but NASA received radio signals from the Martian...
...jury votes for the death penalty, the sentence will not be carried out anytime soon. Both the guilty verdict and the death sentence can be appealed, and this process may take at least three or four years. Should the execution day come, the method will be lethal injection...
...joined the cheerleading in April 1995. He traveled to the Fall River, Mass., plant to deliver an Earth Day speech in which he plugged Knight's client as a "shining example of American ingenuity." But as Forbes magazine wrote in January 1996, Molten Metal had yet to prove its method was cost-effective...
...technical peer-review panel said the department should cease funding Molten Metal at the end of the fiscal year. Another Energy Department panel concluded last December that Haney's technology poses environmental and safety risks and might not be cost-effective. The company disputes this, insisting its bath method is both technically sound and marketable...