Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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More important, Haig at Versailles undertook a bit of well-intended diplomacy that failed. Reagan earlier had forbidden American companies to supply equipment for the Siberia-Western Europe natural gas pipeline, as a method of putting economic pressure on the Soviets in retaliation for the crackdown in Poland. He had reserved the option of imposing further sanctions if the Poles were not granted some greater measure of freedom. The Europeans were angry, regarding any American effort to block the pipeline as an attempt to wage economic war on the Soviet Union. They opposed economic sanctions both on principle-they...
...retired Creed, of all people, replaces Mickey and tries to teach Rocky the new boxing method he must acquire to beat Lang-quick, stylish and black. Rocky is slow to pick it up and agonizes in self-pity. It remains for Adrian to deliver the ultimatum: go for it-the Rocky motto-or give up the rematch...
...want to establish a strong commitment to women's athletics, and the round-robin system is a purer method of determining a champion," said Brown athletic director John Parry. "If a team can sustain its winning streak through seven games that team is certainly worthy of the Ivy championship. But what happens is the star player happens to be injured the one weekend of the tournament...
...Faculty's method of fixing salaries is unusual not only in its low regard for marketplace realities but also in its tight consolidation of authority. At most other universities, says Gerrity, department chairman have a hand in setting their colleagues' wages. Princeton, for example, has no scale for junior or senior professors; a faculty committee determines all salaries based on an elaborate series of recommendations from department members...
...done, Finley has demonstrated an unusually effective and personal method of helping others, both through his teaching and during his term as a House master. As Eliot Professor of Greek Literature. Finley thrilled students for 30 years with passionate and image-filled lectures on the Classics, enabling even the most uninterested undergraduate to understand and enjoy the intricacies of Homer and Virgil. And, as Eliot House master for 27 years--the longest anyone has ever served in a master's post--Finley wrote letters of reference for every one of the approximately 150 seniors who graduated from Eliot each year...