Word: methodizing
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...entirely convinced that this means a wage floor can be ignored entirely. The committee neglected to propose any alternative method by which to determine if this total compensation actually places a worker above the poverty line in Cambridge. Regardless of how a worker's compensation is computed, it needs to be placed in relation to this minimum level. The job of computing the appropriate level of compensation falls on Harvard's shoulders. The committee's job--and the University's commitment to its workers--will not be complete until such a good-faith assessment has been made...
...have the food delivered to their door - but a driver would meet them in the middle of the street with the pies. Domino's argued that the arrangement provided drivers with a modicum of safety in a risky location, but lawyers for the plaintiffs maintained that the unusual delivery method was racially motivated...
...Method kids in jeans, Sir John's classical diction might seem as fuddy a theater relic as tights and gaslights. Yet on the night after his death, on a West End stage, Edie Falco and her American co-stars in the gritty play Side Man paused at the end to pay tribute, leading a final standing ovation, to a man whose love of the theater was so artful and ardent...
Under the heading "Crimes and Punishments (Primitive and Savage)," the Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics lists possible methods of execution: "Decapitation, strangulation, hanging, stabbing or spearing, cudgelling or flagellation, impalement, crucifixion, drowning, burning, flaying alive, burying alive, throwing from a height, stoning, sending the criminal to sea in a leaky canoe, cutting in two, lopping off the limbs. ... In certain regions where cannibalism prevails, criminals are killed and eaten." One method calls for crocodiles...
According to ASG contributor Cissie Fu '00, another problem was the collection method...