Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...majority. The country's citizens cast their ballots for a party, not an individual candidate. Any group that receives 1% of the vote automatically earns a place in the Knesset; the seats are then divided proportionally among the various parties that qualify. Israelis may argue that the method ensures democratic diversity, but it also can produce paralysis...
...part, this freedom stemmed from the specific interests of a diverse faculty, Putnam said. It reflected "the traditional method of training graduate students--known as apprenticeship--in which each student would learn all that one faculty member knew...
...THERE is something even more troubling about this, the latest in a series of decisions which have supported the Reagan Administration's rightist conception of law. This is the method by which the six justices in the majority decided their position--cost benefit analysis. In effect, the justices subjected indivisible individual rights to a social calculus, whereby they measured whether the gain from convicting more criminals outweighed the relative loss of an individual's right to privacy. Justice Byron White was quite explicit on this point: "Because we find that the [exclusionary] rule can have no substantial deterrent effect...
...Malden project was an example of Susskind's philosophy at work. In Malden, Susskind and his team helped the city study its problems with what is known as a Negotiated Investment Strategy (NIS). Such a method uses negotiating teams representing many different sides of a dispute or problem to work together instead of calling in an outside consultant or relying on an administrative decision...
...says he had been looking for ways to improve the method and was looking for a test case when Fallon approached him. However, Susskind and his aides emphasize that they were not attempting to solve Malden's problems for the city, but they were merely showing the people there how to do it themselves...