Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...there was a vote in the House on abolishing the vice presidency. It failed, 85 to 27. Handling succession would be easy. We did it with Ford when we had to ((when Spiro Agnew was forced to resign in 1973)). It was simple. But instead of that method, I'd just reconvene the Electoral College. Under the Constitution, theoretically, they pick the President anyway, and the Vice President. It would give some meaning to the Electoral College...
...while the change may seem bureaucratic rather than substantive, its implications could prove to be far-reaching. Spence, aided by a group of new, more activist department heads, has seized upon the system of faculty staffing as a long-range method for insuring that his agenda is preserved after he leaves office...
Students were mixed in their initial responseto the plan. Undergraduate Council Chairperson KenE. Lee '89 and Residential Committee ChairpersonDana M. Bush '91 said they agreed that diversityis important but disagreed with the masters'method for dealing with the issue...
...responded by packing the brood off for two weeks to a friend in the country, while their father fended off questions about his background. "We needed to get accustomed to a new campaign, but we also had to get our children back on an even keel," she says. Her method for preparing children is to talk them through confrontations before they occur. "Nothing should be allowed to take them by surprise," she says. "The truth will be far less frightening for them than anything they can imagine...
...thuggish," Amenta said. "It was an exercise of blind, naked authority, so far from any modern method of management as to be absurd...