Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...staff of the Center for Research in Personality. The most vociferous critics to psilocybin research believe that it is not conducted for scientific purposes, and that the experimenters are interested in experience rather than reporting their results. A major element of the defense of research contends that scientific method and reportable results are the goal of the research. But a second element of the defense claims that experience is a legitimate goal of inquiry, and that psilocybin should be used in order to heighten perception so that the experimenters may gain new insight into personality by perceiving behavior more clearly...
Home-equity loans are doing a land-office business, expected to double to $70 billion this year (see chart). They are thus gaining rapidly on another method of borrowing against the American home, standard second mortgages, which are likely to be worth $130 billion in 1987. The conventional second mortgage tends to be a short-term, fixed-payment plan for a set amount, based on the value of a home that remains after deducting its first mortgage. But home-equity loans are different: they allow owners to put up their homes as collateral to open variable-rate, revolving-credit accounts...
...aftermath of World War II. The Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of Genocide, for example, prohibits "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part. "The Geneva Conventions states: "Starvation of civilians as a method of warfare is prohibited...
...challenge facing the banks is summed up in an arcane and inelegant word: securitization. The term describes a sophisticated method of using powerful computers to package traditional loans into securities. The new instruments are then bought and sold like conventional bonds in the credit marketplace. Securitization is double edged: in only a few years, the technique has given an enormous boon to consumers in the form of lower interest rates and fresh infusions of money for mortgages and car loans. Banks have also gained from securitization, observes Lowell Bryan, a director at the McKinsey consulting firm. They have, he says...
...Rhythm Method, which appears regularly at clubs in Boston like Jack's and the Channel, were rated one of the top ten bands in Boston earlier this year by Beat Magazine, Axelrod said. In addition, one of their original tunes, Modern Life, climbed to number five on the WFNX-FM Radio Beat Chart, he said...