Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...French. Moët-Hennessy, a Paris-based conglomerate that is France's biggest champagne exporter to the U.S., bought 1,500 Napa Valley acres in 1973. Its Domaine Chandon in 1981 captured an estimated 25% of the market for sparkling wine made by the French method. The company, whose bubbly retails for about $12 a bottle (vs. around $24 for imported Moët & Chandon), plans to produce 5 million bottles annually. By comparison, its parent, Moët-Hennessy, shipped 2.6 million bottles to the U.S. in 1981. Another French firm, Piper-Heid-sieck, has started...
Many a used car and intellectual lemon have been sold with his formula. Lindberg does not label Poe a confidence man but a "New World technician." Yet tech man and con man are related by method. Writes Lindberg: "When the New World technician reduces complex process to duplicable parts, he provides the model by which the con man reduces another's gestures to imitable steps and dissects habits of belief so as to manipulate them...
Undeterred, he returned to Oklahoma to work on his book and began knocking on the doors of school principals. He managed to convince 20 of them to participate in an experiment that would test his method of teaching algebra against the standard texts. He also persuaded the Oklahoma Federation of Teachers to oversee the experiment and certify the results. In all, 1,360 students participated The control group consisted of 841 who used the regular textbooks, while an experimental group of 519 used Saxon's text-Algebra I, an Incremental Development. In each school the same teacher taught...
...society photographer, Stewart is a woman with a mission, a crusader for couth. More than 700 department stores in 43 U.S. cities are franchised to conduct her etiquette training for children, and over the past 15 years, 160,000 clumsy charges have been coached in Marjabelle's method. The six one-hour sessions plus a seventh for graduation ceremonies, which cost up to $65, exist in spots as scattered as Little Rock, Ark., Tuscaloosa, Ala., and Tyler, Texas...
...Doctors learn their bad habits on the poor, but they don't forget their bad habits, they take them to the private sector. In private practice, there are far fewer regulations that a doctor has to contend with," Wolfe adds that there is no method which exists to monitor the extent of private sector abuse...