Word: methodic
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...wide consensus among economists that the CPI overstates the actual rise in the cost of living. The reasons are complicated, but one, called the "substitution effect," is easily grasped. For example, when beef prices rise, people often switch to cheaper meats like chicken, a consumer choice that the current method of figuring the CPI doesn't catch...
...sensitive cases--could be resolved by moving cases within certain narrow and carefully-defined general areas (e.g., sexual assault) into private session. In general, though, students should be treated as adults and held accountable for their actions; paternalism with respect to disciplinary matters is not an effective teaching method in a college community...
...just luck or that he voted for the right candidate for the wrong reasons. But my father votes in the majority for the same reason the majority does: he likes the winner better. "I vote for the best man regardless of the party," says my old man. His method is not scientific. He may watch a debate--and zip around the dial during the lulls. He doesn't really vote his pocketbook, at least not in a what's-in-it-for-me way. "I want someone who I think is talking to me," he says...
...This is a sort of metaphysical version of Christ's admonition to render to Caesar what is Caesar's and to God what is God's, and it is a position that Pope John Paul II reaffirmed last week when he made a statement on evolution. "Consideration of the method used in diverse orders of knowledge allows for the concordance of two points of view which seem irreconcilable," he wrote. "The sciences of observation describe and measure with ever greater precision the multiple manifestations of life...while theology extracts...the final meaning according to the Creator's designs...
Lightfoot won Tom Harkin's House seat when Harkin decided to run for the Senate; now he's pursuing a less decorous method of replacing Harkin. Lightfoot would bring a long record of conservative voting with him. He opposed the ban on assault weapons and drafted an amendment to limit firearms recordkeeping. He favors more defense spending and--perhaps because he began life in an orphanage--is staunchly antiabortion...