Word: methods
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Freshmen are entitled to a comprehensive comparison of the 34 possible fields of concentration. Before they can make a wise and informed choice of fields, they need to know something not only about the general requirements and amount of work, but also about the method of instruction, the course offered, and the faculty members teaching them...
...trouble, the commission found, lay largely in the guidelines themselves. Francis Keppel, former U.S. Commissioner of Education, had allowed the districts to choose between two methods of integration. One, plainly subject to gerrymandering, would set up geographic boundaries within which all children, Negro and white, would attend the same schools. The other would leave Negroes free to attend any school of their choice that had vacant space. Most of the districts, and almost all of those in the Deep South, opted for the second method, thus putting the full burden of integration on the Negro himself...
Forecasting is an art that still has few textbooks. Its basic tool is extrapolation from yesterday and today. As John McHale, executive director of World Resources Inventory, puts it: "The future of the future is in the present." Some other methods seem fairly arcane. Defense Expert Herman Kahn, for instance, uses "scenario writing," in which various alternative future situations are dramatized. Some forecasters use computers to produce a symbolic "model" of particular social or economic structures-including whole industries or nations-and then simulate the interaction of variables. Rand uses the "Delphi" method, in which a wide range of experts...
...original Kenneally bill. All of the plans have been defeated at one time or another, but significantly, the Republican Governor's plan has fared far better, even in the overwhelmingly Democratic legislature. Statewide polls have indicated that the sales tax is by an overwhelming margin the most popular method of raising new revenue...
...typical European corporation in its annual report to the stockholders is, by U.S. standards, hardly enough to cover the head of a pin. Final profit or loss figures are given-without explanation about how they were arrived at. Such basic items as true earnings, performance of subsidiaries, executive compensation, method of evaluating assets, and even total sales are treated as top company secrets. As one result, prospective European investors, having little more to go on than intuition, are leary about sinking their savings into stocks. This fact has contributed to the generally depressed state of Europe's bourses...