Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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THERE is a third method of dealing with examination questions--that is by the use of the overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that it was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact it isn't obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point from which to start. That is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...Cartier jewelry and a black-band Tiffany watch. But behind the reserved, nearly studied exterior, her agile mind freewheels playfully. She conducts the meeting by digression, challenging and revising every assumption presented and switching subjects to alight on a new idea before circling around to finish the last. The method is collaborative: a free-form Scrabble game that reflects her scanning, multitrack way of thinking. Gradually, eventually, problems are solved: story ideas jell, stereotypes are smashed, cliches dissolved and media-worn phrases reconstituted into acceptable headlines...
...usual Bush method of dealmaking with Congress is to straddle an issue and give something to everybody. Typical was last week's decision to pursue development of both the mobile MX missile and the Midgetman. Either one alone would serve the nation's security needs, but both have strong supporters in Congress. This method smacks of perfidious pragmatism to one of the few papers Reagan is known to read and enjoy, the conservative weekly Human Events, which bristles with articles critical of the new Administration. "I do not think President Bush's concept of the presidency can work," writes Patrick...
Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera, who is also trying to reproduce the Utah results, said that he will continue his experiment because he is using a different method than the one Pons and Fleischmann used...
...College is ambitious to ensure a high survey response rate. Unsatisfactory response rates in earlier years may indicate a need for some mechanism to encourage greater participation. The method which the College has chosen, however, ensures response at the expense of a serious affront to the entire senior class...