Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sides. Environmentalists were pleased that the plan met their minimum goals. Industry grumbled about heavy costs: $14 billion to $19 billion annually by the end of the year 2000. But utility executives sighed with relief that they would be allowed to choose whatever they found to be the cheapest method of cleaning...
...word evokes quaint images of cabinetmakers or alchemists teaching eager youths the secrets of their trade. Yet apprenticeship -- the acquisition of knowledge through practice in the presence of a master -- is a time-tested teaching method whose applications go far beyond the shop floor. The principle is at work every time someone takes a total-immersion language lesson, follows a doctor on his rounds to learn how to practice medicine, or tags along with a crack dealer to learn the ropes of the drug trade. In fact, a body of scientists and educators maintains that it is the primary means...
Apprenticeship has produced promising results in various experimental programs. Techniques devised by Ann Brown and Annemarie Palincsar, while doing education research at the University of Illinois, raised reading-comprehension , scores in a Springfield seventh-grade class from 20% to 80% in 20 days. The method was to make the children approach a text the way a teacher does: by formulating questions, summarizing, predicting what will come next and isolating problems...
...Their experimental method was pretty sloppy," said Cabot Professor of the Natural Sciences Isaac F. Silvera, who is leading a Harvard team checking the fusion results. "And I don't like the idea of announcing in the press before publishing. It's not the way to do science...
Observers say the key to Bok's confidence is rooted in his method; he demands that large volumes of information be filtered up to him through Harvard's bureacracy whenever a decision is required. When Bok is interested in a subject, he insists that his committees and advisors provide him with a thorough presentation of facts and arguments...