Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...simple method by which people can protect themselves in the event of a hotel fire is to supply each room with a plastic hose that could be attached to a water outlet in the bathroom. The hose could be used to wet down a room completely...
...Gary Hart argued against the expensive Nimitz carrier in favor of lighter, less expensive models. Republican Mark Hatfield, chairman of the Senate Appropriations Committee, promises to push for some type of arms limitation agreement. Says Hatfield: "We're spending and building first before seeing if there is a method of obviating the need for that buildup. It's unnecessary and it's dangerous...
...California-that it takes for a check that is cashed in one branch of a bank to "clear" or be debited against the funds on deposit in another branch. No actual cash is shuffled between branches in the balancing process. Instead, accounts are made to tally by a method of computerized ledger balancing known as a "branch settlement account," a technique used by banks everywhere...
...secure, she is in her own right a fascinating figure of the moment as she fights her way through a state bureaucracy that would prefer she found an other subject. Her Mr. Deeds is a brick layer named Mateusz Birkut (Jerzy Radziwilowicz). Earnest and innocent, he pioneered a faster method of doing his job in the Stalinist '50s. But one man's technological breakthrough is an other's speedup: though the government publicizes him as a Stakhanovite, he is resented by other workers. One of them passes him hot bricks during a demonstration, maiming him. When...
Kathleen A. Karpilow, a graduate student and Dunster House tutor who began the letter-writing campaign, pointed out that the proposed amendment would outlaw not only abortions, but also intra-uterine devices (IUD), the "morning after pill," and any method of birth control that works after conception...