Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...series of talented junior professors have been remarkably interested in introducing undergraduates to the historical method. But given the department's refusal to make a promotion from within, young scholars may soon become wary of coming to Harvard at all. At the same time, the department is falling in influence, and outside historians suggest that the most talented graduate students no longer choose to pursue their doctorates at the University...
...bankers for the still struggling government of President Corazon Aquino. Payments on nearly half of the country's $28.2 billion foreign debt had been rescheduled at interest rates nearly 40% lower than the banks had originally demanded, saving about $1 billion. Ongpin had also won approval for a novel method of turning some of the remaining interest into badly needed foreign investment. Said Betty Starkey, an analyst at Multinational Strategies, a Manhattan-based economic-consulting firm: "The Philippines has pulled off a coup...
...around the middle of the nineteenth centurymany artists and critics became dissatisfied withthe establishment. The critic Vladimir Stasovurged a rejection of Western styles and ideals anda move toward "a national and original orientationin art." He called for Russian artists to rejectthe schools of European classicism and to developa new method of interpretation, allowing theartist "to paint a native landscape, and one inwhich he lived with nature, so as not to have toinvent each detail of his work, such as a foreignsky over a foreign land...
...process of picking a Class Day speaker is undoubtedly flawed. The present selection method is neither democratic nor efficient. That is the opinion The Crimson ought to have expressed. Their blathering against Goldman and Dukakis has no rhyme or reason...
Among the administration's resolutions in the wake of a student blockade of an administration building are the establishment of a $35,000 annual budget for the Black Student Union and the implementation of a method for collecting data about racial incidents...