Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard's success was reflected in the tournament all-star selections. Bragg, Powlison, Rennard, and McGill were all chosen. Bragg, the Crimson captain, was not overwhelmed by the selections. "All of the guys on the team played well enough to be chosen for the all-star team, but the method of selection made it practically impossible for this to happen," he said...
Other Administration proposals chip away at a variety of much-abused tax devices. These include some debt-securities popular with conglomerates, such tax shelters as farm losses and certain trust income. Another target is "multiple subsidiaries"-a method by which some companies split up into myriad separate firms to take advantage of the lower tax rates (22% v. 48%) imposed on businesses with less than $25,000 income. Nixon also took aim at some wild abuses by tax-exempt organizations. Among other things, private foundations would be required to substantiate their charitable activities and be barred from financial dealings with...
Jubilee Weekends always start in the middle of February. First there is a poll of everybody in the Union to decide who The Group will be this year. Then through some enormously complex method of voting in which everyone tries to stuff the ballot box, they come out with a top three. And usually the combined vote for this top three totals about 200 more than the number of freshmen in the class...
...that severed the canvas itself could destroy the weird, calligraphic network of garlanded vines and leaves, giant blades of timothy and field grass that binds the picture together. It is as though the artist were striving to piece together a shattered world, unite natural and supernatural, impose method on madness. He hardly succeeds, but the effort carries its own fascination...
Uncertainties abound in the publishing business, but one fact seems tantalizingly obvious: there are millions of potential readers for publications aimed at the 18-to-25 age bracket. But how to reach them? One method is to hire professionals to turn out smooth articles in hip lingo in a psychedelic or Art Nouveau layout ("Talking to kids in their own language," it's called). Cheetah and Eye magazines tried that - and folded...