Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Theoretically, it is in sophomore tutorial that the department introduces historical method. Tutors generally concur that a major challenge in dealing with non-Western problems is the different terminology and the foreign modes of thought to which students must become accustomed. A student without this background would be at a considerable disadvantage in a departmental course on Chinese communism, for instance, and would be more likely to be frustrated by the subject matter...
...small gain. Not surprisingly, past endeavors to cut special interest appropriations usually lost by large margins The so-called reconciliation process, however, allows the budget committees, with the agreement of a majority of both houses, to commit individual appropriation committees to fixed ceilings in a spending package. This method has existed since the Budget Act of 1974, but it remained essentially dormant until recently. Under this procedure, the benefits to the average taxpayer of huge budget cuts are clear, and the cost to any special interest is diluted. A vote against cash benefits for one's constituents...
...impetus for the new method goes back to 1977, when the Securities and Exchange Commission began pressing for annual reports that give investors more information about the effects of inflation on a firm's finances. Inflation accounting was finally mandated in 1979 by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, the profession's watchdog. This year the board required inflation-adjusted figures for only the 1,280 largest corporations, those with assets of more than $1 billlion...
Within five years, the new method may apply to all firms...
...Christian epoch will have no room for a necromancer - or an ironic realist. Mer lin's time has come again in the post-Christian 20th century; it is fitting, then, that Williamson expresses both the juicy effluence of hoary ham acting and the quizzical underplaying of the Method. His Merlin is also a perfect avatar of the sorcerer behind the camera. Love Excalibur or hate it, but give Boorman credit for the loopy grandeur of his imagery and imaginings, for the sweet smell of excess, for his heroic gamble that a movie can dare to trip over its pretensions...