Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Thompson did neither when he was up for re-election last November, but he came close enough to defeat: his margin of victory was a mere 5,074 votes. Last week the Washington Post reported that in the middle of Thompson's hard-fought race he altered the method by which Illinois' weekly unemployment statistics are reported to the U.S. Labor Department. The gambit, which is used by other states and met with no objection from the Labor Department, conveniently maintained Illinois' unemployment-insurance payment rate at precisely the level needed to keep residents who had been...
Biologist Michael Ghiselin: $212,000 in 1981. A specialist in evolutionary biology and author of the acclaimed The Triumph of the Darwinian Method (1969), Ghiselin had resigned from the faculty at the University of California at Berkeley to devote more time to writing and research even before receiving his award. Says he: "I sold my house and was living in draconian parsimony. This award gave me the resources for going places and doing research. I was upset by the award at first-it was hard to deal with after coping with adversity for so many years. But I have...
Legally, John Paul can do nothing. Only Italian President Alessandro Pertini can order Agca's release, but the Italian government observes a strict policy of not negotiating with kidnapers. The motives remain as mysterious as the method. The kidnapers have not demanded money, nor have they spiced their messages with ideological rantings or political rationales. Instead, they have identified themselves only as "people who are interested in Agca's liberation." Some Romans speculate that they may be agents from Bulgaria or even the Soviet Union, the countries Agca has implicated in the papal assassination attempt. The kidnapers...
...cooperative irrigation system. In the '50s he built a home, then a larger one ten years ago. His 4.4-acre farm is about twice the average acreage here, and his grapes, apples, peaches and melons have done well. The eldest son, Isamu, had just installed a new, promising method for improving grape production with vinyl tents...
...rarefied world of music instruction, Shinichi Suzuki long ago introduced such standbys of Japanese industrial thought as volume, logic and enthusiasm. Suzuki began developing his learning-through-imitation method of teaching violin more than three decades ago. Today he is 84, and his world-famous technique is 300,000 students old (two-thirds of them in the U.S.). Suzuki begins by having his students, many of them just three or four years old, watch those in the classes ahead of them. After a couple of months, they are given empty, miniature violin cases and chopsticks for bows...