Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...method, which like radiology was developed around the turn of the century, is simple: food passes through a lead-shielded concrete chamber where radioactive cobalt 60 or cesium 137 bombards it with gamma rays, killing insects and bacteria and sometimes slowing ripening. The food does not become radioactive. "There's nothing in common at all between a nuclear reactor like Chernobyl and an irradiator," says Karl Abraham, a spokesman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC). "It's like comparing bananas to tigers." Treated food "can be immediately eaten," says George Giddings, director of food irradiation at Isomedix...
...punctuated his pitch Henny Youngman-style: "Talk about a cheap gag. This'll make you gag, Charlie." Then Bill Anderson came out to talk about using ventriloquism in church work. He had written a pamphlet of 111 different ways to use it, one paragraph devoted to each method, and he mentioned all 111. A sample: "Use your dummy for free advertising. Take your dummy to a clothing store to get a new suit, or a barber shop to get his hair cut, and call the newspaper and they'll send a photographer...
...action down at City Hall last spring, a first-term city councillor offered a series of scandalous proposals which would weaken, if not destroy, rent control and Cambridge's method of providing low-cost housing to its neediest citizens. Throughout the whole legislative debate, however, Harvard's large legislative lobbying staff was conspicuously quiet on the matter--and no wonder, given the University's poor track record on rent control...
...part of an industry-wide drive to cut costs, most of today's gold mines are surface, or open-pit, operations, a method used in copper and coal mining. The new excavations can take as long as eight years to start up, but then can handle thousands of tons of low-grade ore daily. The latest mines make use of a chemical technique called heap leaching to reduce costs. The procedure involves the spraying of crude ore with a cyanide solution that absorbs microscopic amounts of gold as it filters through the heaps of rock. After further processing...
...leaching process retrieves even marginal deposits. One place where the method will be used is Angels Camp, Calif., about 120 miles east of San Francisco. Angels Camp provided Mark Twain with notebooks full of prospecting lore for his short story The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. Today workers for the Carson Hill gold-mining company are blasting and carving out a 1,100-acre open-pit site. When it begins full operation in October, the Carson Hill venture will be the first commercial gold mine to open in the Angels Camp area since 1950. The company's general manager...