Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Those who find this method simply too shocking often try the alternative two-alarm system. This can be modified to meet almost anyone's needs: you need only set one alarm by your bed and the other across the room. The first alarm will wake you without making you get out of bed. Before the second one rings later (at a reasonable time you determine), you will have mentally prepared for it. Even if you fall back to sleep, the second alarm will be less of a rude surprise...
...combined two-alarm and across-the-room method is a solution for many, but some find that if they remain in the same room as their bed, they will inevitably go back to lie down; these people must go one step further, using the two-or-more-alarms method and the out-of-the-room technique. This double-jeopardy system entails setting an alarm inside the room to wake you, and one outside to get you up and away from the bed. Rarely does one use the out-of-the-room method on its own because of the hazards...
...deluxe edition of the two-or-more-alarms, out-of-the-room method is a succession of three or four bells or buzzers which go off at regular intervals of ten minutes or so. The alarms start softly, perhaps with music. As you turn each one off, you are allowed to go back to bed until the last one rings. The succession of alarms will have taken you out of the room slowly. Usually the last alarm is the most obnoxious, just in case you're tempted to sleep through it. The best story I heard was from one sophomore...
...best way to understand the interrelated problems that the reformers hope to tackle is by examining the haphazard method by which weapons are chosen, tested and funded. The lack of coherence in the process can be seen through a simple example: the way money is spent for close air support. American and NATO defense doctrine hinges on effective close air support: the Soviets invade Central Europe, the U.S. Army's M-60 and new M-1 tanks confront them, and the U.S. Air Force is called upon to coordinate bombing and strafing attacks on enemy artillery and tanks. "Close...
More specifically, the center will investigate creative mental processes including "method, symbols, discovery, craft, criticism, and evaluation...