Word: methodic
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Vickrey, 82, designed a novel auction method in which bids are sealed and the winner pays what the second-highest bidder offered; a version of this is used by the U.S. Treasury to sell notes. Vickrey also urged railways and utilities to prevent congestion by charging peak rates at the busiest times of day, a practice that has now become routine...
...commitment to enhancing the black presence in Hollywood. Case in point: Get On the Bus, Lee's celebration of the Million Man March, which opens on Oct. 16, the first anniversary of the event. Apart from its subject matter, the movie is nothing special. But in its unprecedented method of financing, Bus represents an important breakthrough for racial equity. Its entire budget came from black male investors inspired by the march's message of self-reliance. Says Lee: "If we really wanted this film to come out correct, we had to do it ourselves...
...tobacco stains on his teeth and hatred of blacks and Jews in his heart. He has an alcoholic daughter (a skeletal Faye Dunaway) and a grandson, Adam (chipper Chris O'Donnell), determined to save Sam from state-sanctioned murder. This makes for high, disjointed drama--a shotgun marriage of Method theatrics and TV-movie heart tugging...
...lottery has the educational merit of corporal punishment. It must be abolished outright and replaced with another method, perhaps a method as cumbersome as written application. This is, after all, Harvard, not the University of Michigan. --Michael Fertik...
...coastal villagers started stripping nearshore reefs of giant clams, groupers and other large fish. Then the fishermen upped their productivity by a novel but frighteningly destructive practice: blasting the reefs with dynamite and scooping up the dead fish. Now they have adopted what may be the most insidious fishing method of all. Sustained by hoselike "hookahs" and portable air compressors, Philippine divers are hunting down big reef fish, stunning them with cyanide and hauling them to the surface alive. The practice allows traders to supply Chinese restaurants with the live fish their affluent customers covet. Meanwhile...