Word: methodizing
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...Cole and the surrounding port area, collecting unexploded fragments of explosive material left by the bomb. Those fragments will then undergo field tests to divine their molecular composition. Investigators will be particularly interested in anything they can learn about the bomb's detonator. Since every assailant has a favored method of wiring a bomb, the detonator's construction could help experts zero in on the bomb's provenance...
Part of the credit went to a new method of linking reading instruction with writing. But Accelerated Reader, by Renaissance Learning in Wisconsin Rapids, Wis., was a huge hit with kids. Used in 51,000 U.S. schools, it's essentially a software program. A student doesn't get credit for reading a book before passing a test of anywhere from five to 20 questions...
...hand, the government is still holding the bag for Investment and Postal Bank (IPB), which was fully privatized by the time the Social Democrats came to power. It's the kind of privatization that gives sell-offs a bad name. Part of the bank was privatized by the voucher method. Although the state kept a majority stake, that share was subsequently diluted. In 1998 the state unloaded its remaining stake (36.29%) to Nomura, the Japanese investment bank, which resold its shares to a passive Dutch shareholder. At no point did the bank have a strategic investor to oversee its conduct...
...Seekers of the Perfect Cup, from the people who made the vente mocha Frappuccino as ubiquitous as the Big Mac, comes Starbucks' Barista Utopia Vacuum Coffee Brewing System ($169). The idea is to take vacuum coffee brewing, a method long favored in Europe, and Americanize it--make it plug-in simple, electric and automatic. You put freshly ground coffee in the large funnel on top, insert the funnel's rubber gasket tightly into the water-filled carafe below, push ON and stand back. The water quickly heats to a perfect, sub-boiling 205[degrees]F and gets sucked up into...
...easy task for a woman who once described herself as "pure as the driven slush." As Bankhead, Turner confides details of her sex life, knocks back enough liquor to fell a horse and tosses out one-liners actually taken from Bankhead's pithy utterings. She mocks men, acting ("that method shit") and, most of all, herself...