Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million or more in advertising and marketing to launch a new brand nationwide, and just one item in ten survives. By presenting buyers with a familiar name, companies generally increase the chances of success. Says Edward Tauber, a University of Southern California marketing professor: "It's a method for a company to enter a new business through the lever age of its most valuable asset-the consumer awareness, good will and impressions conveyed by its brand name." Deere & Co., the farm machinery manufacturer, did not hide its marketing tactics. The slogan for its line of insurance: "Our good name...
...American financial system still relies on air service, despite the great growth in electronic fund transfers, the method of automatically switching money from one bank to another via computer hookups. To receive payment on checks deposited by customers, banks must physically transport them to regional clearing centers that are operated by large banks and Federal Reserve branches. The funds can then be processed...
...Thematic Apperception Test, in which viewers reveal personality patterns by constructing stories from a series of pictures. Instead he uses the images as an emotional icebreaker: "The initial response gives me cues about where to go from there." But Canadian Psychologist Paul Lerner, an expert on the Rorschach method believes Walker's approach may very well become a new diagnostic tool for assessing personality. "Like the Rorschach," Lerner says, "it could be used to show what aspect the patient pays attention to and what he ignores...
...then, you probably aren't coming here because you want to wield power. You want to be a lawyer. Whatever your professional plans, though, you'll have to eat, and hence you may wonder what the Handbook has to say about food. Using a modified Socratic method, the editors have asked questions which an anthropomorphized Food Service answers. What, the observer may wonder, is the "objective" of Food Services? "The objective of the department is to provide you with a variety of excellent food and courteous service to fulfill your nutritional requirements and to add to your mealtime pleasure...
Part two explains the Core Curriculum, Harvard's shiny new way of larnin' its undergraduates, and displays the carcass of General Education, the old-fashioned method. The Core offers courses if five "modes of inquiry:" Literature and Arts, Foreign Cultures, Historical Study, Social Analysis, Moral Reasoning and Science. These peculiar names were applied to the areas because, according to the Core's authors, they show the way specialists approach their fields of endeavor...