Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...issue is not the dollar value but the method of appraisal," said Jacqueline O'Neill, assistant to the vice-president for community and government affairs...
Farmers have known for years that harvesting their produce at night can save time when ripening crops need to be rushed to market. But in California some enterprising melon growers are using the method to cut energy costs as well. Melons picked in the blazing California sun must first be cooled from 100° F or more down to 40° before the fruit can be packed and shipped. Electrical expenses for refrigeration alone can exceed $50,000 per season for a medium-size 5,000-acre farm. If the fruit is picked at night when the air cools...
...will provide free transportation to the polls in some areas but not in combat zones. To make things easier for voters who do not read and write, the ballots will bear the distinctive colors and symbols of all six parties. There will even be a change in the usual method that is meant to prevent multiple voting: voting lists have been abolished and, instead of stamping voters' fingers with indelible ink, invisible ink and special ultraviolet detectors will be used at the polling places. The reason: guerrillas have threatened to cut off all fingers bearing telltale ink marks...
...negotiation so far are parochial. In Albany, "fair share" plans at 34 Catholic schools have boosted tuition revenues as much as 15% per year. In Denver, where 30 Catholic elementary and high schools have been negotiating tuition for four years, school revenues from tuition are up 21%. A similar method has also worked for New York City's independent Manhattan Country School, which is far more expensive but where 44% of the students are members of minority groups. In what the school calls a tithe, well-to-do families pay 10% of their income up to a maximum...
...high prices for their Black Market skills. These "Coathanger Closets" or "Vacuum Alleys" would endanger lives; pregnant patients would never be certain whether their abortion was performed by a doctor, nurse, midwife, or butcher. Other choices creep up on the desperate mother-to-be the home-made, self-executed method, used for centuries before modern science and legal abortions, could grow popular again; many women would understandably rather risk injury or death than have their secret exposed. In cases of extreme poverty or fear of disclosure, the last alternative would be to have the child-without the means or desire...