Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...didn't eat at the food project meal. Some of the more genteel street people prefer "scarfing" or "vulching" (an invented verb form of "vulture"), which consists of waiting inconspicuously in a restaurant until a customer finishes and then beating the busboy to the plates of leftovers. But this method doesn't work for Joseph, who looks too hungry to go by unnoticed. Instead, he spends his evening scavenging Berkeley's dumpsters for food...
...cannot imagine anything so destructive as a bureaucracy for determining the comparable worth of dissimilar jobs, like comparing a secretary with a truck driver. Why not let the proven method of supply and demand govern the worth...
...reporting on the troubles that Japan's Sony Corp. is encountering, TIME stated that companies such as Toshiba and NEC have abandoned Sony's Beta videotape sys tem in favor of the VHS method developed by Sony's archrival Matsushita. This is not true. Toshiba and NEC are continuing to offer the Beta format to their customers. TIME regrets the error...
...poets under consideration, Libby maintains, have evinced a "preoccupation with death" which includes the idea of a more absolute annihilation of nothingness as a positive entily. Annihilation becomes both a subject and a method Eliot, for example, uses the self-destruction of logic to create a patados which gives his famous Four Quarlets much of their energy...
...purported watchdog agency demonstrated its change in approach at the new group's first meeting last week. In sharp contrast to previous Commissions' vigorous support for affirmative action and desegregation, Reagan's Commission voted 6-2 against the use of numerical goals as a method of redressing past discrimination and against the use of busing as the last alternative to segregation. It also made its "top priority" a proposed study of the effects of affirmative action programs on Americans of Eastern and Southern European descent. More disturbing than these actions' political content, though, is the way the group simply parroted...