Word: methodizing
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...called hotel heiress Nicky Hilton, 17, who, along with her older sister Paris, is known for going to swank parties dressed like a Dynasty character about to get dressed. "I don't think guys can tell the difference," she admitted. Nicky uses the tried-and-true method for determining whether an outfit is too outrageous: "If I'm wearing something too whatever, my mother will say something...
...There may yet be some method, though, in NATO's fudging of the unresolved issues. For one thing, squeamishness in Western capitals about another Balkan peacekeeping mission may require such palpably deceptive promises as a 30-day limit on the deployment - after all, it's easier to cajole alliance members into expanding the terms of the mission once the troops are already on the ground. The early deployment may well be a primarily symbolic gesture, designed to generate psychological momentum behind the peace process...
That approach didn't make sense to Stanford biochemist Patrick Brown. Convinced that tissues and cells could be studied as collective systems rather than as individual components, he devised a method to mechanically print more than 20,000 gene molecules onto 45,000 tiny spots on a conventional microscope slide...
Harvard was one of the only universities to sign a letter urging the House not to ban a procedure known as somatic cell nuclear transfer which scientists say is the ideal method for harvesting stem cell products. The procedure helps ensure that implanted cells are accepted by the recipient’s immune system...
...large block letters and underscored with Braille. Looking at the series of tapes before me, I quickly understood that it would take a very long time to listen to the book in its entirety. I would have to content myself with concentrating in detail on sections of it, a method that, as an English major, I have learned works quite well with verbose 19th-century novels. I scanned the table of contents and noted the page numbers and tape volumes of the Picasso section. I pressed play, closed my eyes, and began listening to the introduction...