Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Notwithstanding the potential profits, the industry has failed in one crucial respect--developing a safe method of producing these chips. It has been proven almost impossible to contain the arsenic gas used in the production of gallium arsenic. The industry has tried to conceal the stuff in silicon dioxide boats sealed in containers: unfortunately, no federal standards exist for either the boat or the container. Whereas the containers used to contain nuclear wastes go through vigorous testing before they are approved, the government does nothing of the sort for the gallium arsenic. Other types of safeguards are similarly unscrutinized...
...showed that it was possible to protect mice against malaria by injecting them with sporozoites that had been rendered harmless by irradiation. The same result was achieved in a small number of human subjects. But there was no way to mass-produce a vaccine, because the only method of obtaining sporozoites was to dissect the salivary glands of infected mosquitoes...
...methods of mosquito control are also vital. The challenge is to produce insecticides that are environmentally safe and that can overcome the problem of resistance. Entomologist Brian Federici, a WHO consultant at the University of California, Riverside, may have found a way of solving these two problems by spraying breeding grounds with a naturally occurring bacterium that kills mosquito larvae. But the method is costly, and Federici asks, "Who is going to pay for it?" That is the ultimate question in controlling malaria. According to one estimate, the cost of producing a malaria vaccine and distributing it to Third World...
...chose the three winners from 16 qualified applicants by using the somewhat unorthodox method of a lottery. Agency officials drew names from a plastic drum borrowed from the Selective Service. This set off loud beeps of protest from such applicants as American Express, MCI and Metromedia, which claim they are better equipped to provide the service than the others. But the relatively small firms that won-Radiofone, Pagememo and United Paging-have links to larger companies, including Western Union and Cox Communications...
...method of neoliberalism that strikes one not only as muddle-headed, but also a tad naive. Rothenberg writes, correctly, of the frustration of many of the new breed of Democrats with the traditional party dependence on interest groups, i.e. big labor. He notes the explicit appeal--as was amply demonstrated by Gary Hart's presidential pitch--to rise above this sectarian approach to things, to realize that governing does not mean pandering piecemeal to every possible constituency. And he properly makes the comment that all this being said, the call for the "national interest" as opposed to the "special interest...