Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...start a lottery, 40% of the take is allotted to a conservation trust fund. In Massachusetts, a share of the profits from the state's high stakes Megabucks game is designated for the arts. Explains P.G.R.I. President Duane Burke: "If the choice is added taxation or a voluntary method of raising additional revenue, people will choose the voluntary method...
Whatever the method, players see the games as a dice roll on a dream. Says Louis DeSantis, who has sold New York lottery tickets at his Lower Manhattan newsstand since 1967: "People know they're not going to get rich on what they're making, so they invest a dollar and wish." But despite well-publicized accounts of overnight wealth (see box), a person is about 31½ times as likely to be killed by lightning as to win New York State's Lotto jackpot. "Sure, somebody wins," says Myron Powell, a retired Congregational minister who fought...
...More immediately, the Forest Service is testing a method for quickly showing if a person is sensitive to the poison ivy family. In the test, also developed at U.C.S.F., a small drop of the plant's poisonous chemical, urushiol, is placed on the arm, and the reaction is monitored...
...seems to be enforced rarely if at all. Gumchewing, Walkman-clad culprits crowd the libraries, marking the books in neon pink, sky blue, or margarine yellow. Of course, the highlighter pen is not the only device used to destroy Harvard's books. Some annotaters opt for the more efficient method of making brackets in the margins--which at least annoys future readers a little less. Others add their own insights. "This is stupid," or "Imperialistic bull"--as if to clue in the world as to the true nature of a particular passage...
Beyond this, many of the markings in books don't make any sense at all. Users of highlighter pens often resort to the "roadblock method"--just as police road-blocks stop every fifth car, these people highlight every fifth sentence. "I have never forgotten it. They charged thirty-five cents," read a highlit sentence in one book. I hope someone remembered that one for an exam...