Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...much trouble outside the homeland can simply be "endorsed" out of white areas, and they have no choice but to obey. Vorster told Bantustan chiefs who objected last year to the pass laws that "principle" of the pass law is not negotiable, for they are the most effective method the government has to keep African unrest sub-dued. About 600,000 blacks are now prosecuted annually under the pass laws, receiving ten days to a few months in jail, and countless more are sent back to the Bantustan without official prosecution...
...afraid to deal with something more challenging. Whenever the play verges on some coherent statement, Patrick backs away and throws in a silly one-liner. "It's all right to protect yourself, but not all right to take sides," says the veteran. This seems to be Patrick's method of writing. Using humor as his shield, he avoids difficult questions and entraps his characters in a television world of pat phrases and petty trauma. We don't take these five anguished characters very seriously, mainly because Patrick doesn't either...
...been dotted by U.S. drilling and production platforms for a generation. The North Sea soon turned into a stern teacher. Laying pipelines, for example, called for bigger, more sophisticated and more expensive barges than any ever used in the Gulf. Because choppy seas often prevent tanker loading, some method for temporarily storing great quantities of oil at sea was called for. The result: CONDEEP- a giant concrete-reinforced production platform with huge storage tanks. A Norwegian innovation, two CONDEEPs have been put in place in the British sector; each cost $300 million and has a storage capacity...
Fogel--whose method is based on quantitative materials, mainly census tracts and plantation records--also argued that the slave system was less brutal than past historians have said...
McKinney said Harvard will continue to use the minority locater service, which identifies prospective minority applicants through the Graduate Record Exam, even though this has not been a successful method in the past. In addition, the GSAS will do "some recruiting," McKinney said...