Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...worsening economy. Instead, he struck squarely at the most bothersome aspect of Britain's financial weakness: a balance of payments deficit that reached $1.3 billion last year. He hopes to turn that deficit into a $1.2 billion surplus this year by the blunt and bru tal method of taking money from British pockets. If the British have less buying power, he reckons, they will import less, export more...
...behavior of objects penetrating the earth at high speed-a science that Sandia has named "terradynamics"-engineers have used projectiles weighing from 5 Ibs. to 6,000 Ibs. that strike the earth vertically at speeds of from 41 m.p.h. to 1,870 m.p.h., depending on the drop altitude and method of release. Some are merely shoved out of airplanes or hovering helicopters; others are dive-bombed or rocketed to boost their velocities. The best penetrators, Sandia has found, are pencil-shaped missiles of heavy metal that are at least 8 to 10 times longer than their diameters. Some have plunged...
...around is no good," she says sternly, and starts clipping away with her shears. This leads into a lesson on containing aggressive philodendron: wrap the dangling stems around the base of the plant, puncture the skin and pin the stems down with hairpins so they will sprout anew. Her method for watering hanging plants without dribbling on the floor: drop a couple of ice cubes into...
...Because of the growing complexity of the law, some method of certificating specialists should be developed "as a means of aiding the public to secure competent legal services for particularized needs." In addition, continuing legal education is of growing importance for attorneys, judges and policymaking officials of such administrative agencies as welfare departments...
...Obviously that's not an answer," Brower says, "only a method. But the answers have to come. With consumption doubling every decade, we've got to recognize that our generation cannot responsibly commit future ones to the kind of world they will have. That's what we're doing now. When it happens in an individual, we call it cancer...