Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Student Employment Office will also be in charge of monitoring student earnings, although the exact method of monitoring has not yet been established. SEO currently is drawing up a system to check on students' earnings through the comptroller's office, Honnet said...
APPARENTLY, however, John Hough Jr. doesn't really want this to be a detective novel and subtly deemphasizes all aspects of the book that are such. The motive and method of the murder are quite ordinary, and, in spite of Gifford and O'Rourke's exertions, its solution is quite simple. The whodunit is so peripheral to the body of the novel, in fact, that the first real clues do not surface until three months after the killing and a sizeable lull in the narrative, and Gifford continues his account for a good 30 pages after the guilty verdict...
...results of behavioral therapy to change homosexuals are even more controversial. One common method: to expose male gays to electric shocks or nauseating drugs while pictures of nude men are shown...
Whitney's method, which became known as "the American system," was the prototype for hundreds of manufacturing centers round the country. It also became the model 50 years later for the mass production of watches. The fine, precise machine tools used by watchmakers to create the cheap timepieces that eventually sold for a dollar were directly descended from the Whitney musket factory. By 1876 the American wind-up alarm clock had been invented at the Seth Thomas Clock Co. in Connecticut. The morning would never be the same again...
...five-member Postal Commission evidently agreed. It repudiated Wenner's method of calculating mail costs and concluded that first-class users were not being penalized. The commission said that the 10? rate, which has been in effect on a temporary basis for the past 18 months, should be made permanent. That move, under the Postal Reorganization Act of 1970, allows the Postal Service Board of Governors, the final arbiter, to authorize raising rates by 33% over the current ones within 100 days, again on a "temporary" basis. The governors could hold off or change the commission's recommendations...