Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Wharton School. One shortcoming that some critics perceive: although business-school alumni still rate first in management skills, they may not be on the cutting edge of economic and market theory. Bok seems to have agreed with this assessment. In a 1979 report he noted that "the case method actually limits the time available for students to master analytic techniques and conceptual material." The B-school agreed and has been ventilating the case method while essentially defending it. Says Senior Associate Dean Joseph Bower, with pride in his school's management training: "One can be effective by working with...
...turned out scenes with the same laissez-faire approach to composition. But in general, the exemplary pictures of the . camera-reporting tradition have bowed to pictorial convention, treating the edges of the frame like a proscenium arch around a quickly readable image. Anyone who doubts that this time-honored method can still be affecting need only look to David Burnett's elegant and straightforward pictures of minor league baseball. But Burnett is the odd man out in this show, where the prevailing tone is more hectic or quizzical...
...possible world I guess there would have been a more democratic process of selection," said Undergraduate Council Chairman Brian C. Offutt '87, one of those picked. "But given the lack of time they had and the inability to know who would be around in early September, the best possible method was undertaken...
What's left? Pill use dropped by nearly half in the decade since 1973, when the National Center for Health Statistics reported that 36.1% of married women between the ages of 15 and 44 preferred that method. This month the New England Journal of Medicine reported that the Pill does not increase the chance of breast cancer, even in many high-risk groups. The Journal concluded that the dangers are so small that "the vast majority of users will experience only the benefits." But many women are wary. The most popular birth control is now sterilization. One-third of sexually...
...they aren't a patch on 550 flutists. The instrumentalists, who were attending the 14th Annual Flute Convention in New York City, gathered in the plaza at Lincoln Center one morning last week for a "flute-in"; they included teachers from Kentucky, flute- makers from Connecticut and Suzuki-method pupils from California. As cameras focused in for the Today show, diminutive Irish Pied Piper James Galway led the rows of virtuosos in Danny Boy, then John Denver's Annie's Song, which a Galway recording has popularized, and finally Amazing Grace. Why not a classical program? Says Galway: "What...