Word: methods
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...food Service department considers the lending of I.D. cards to be the major method of board cheating, and if the Identimation was instituted. Dube said, board bills could go down...
...constantly in conflict." Perhaps the problem is that the women's movement, by its very nature so bound up with emotions and subjective reactions, is an impossible subject to report on objectively--and that goes for mate reporters as well as female ones. In any case. Ephron's journalistic method of casting herself prominently as the flat-chested reluctant tomboy who wonders what all those beautiful women are complaining about, as the wallflower at the orgy (the title of her previous book), and most often, as the little boy who points out that the women's movement sometimes...
...THERE are pitfalls to the personal involvement method, pitfalls of which Ephron is often aware. she is careful not to make the mistake of generalizing from her own experience when it comes to consciousness-raising; she knows that her conclusions are limited to a certain group of women conclusions are limited to a certain group of women from a certain socio-economic background living in New York, at a captain time, and she is willing eyes eager, to concede that some CR groups may be "wonderful." But she is not so careful and even handed when it comes to other...
...rushes through the air, Ford can pick up a radio telephone to speak to anyone in the world, his voice bouncing off a satellite. Since these conversations can be overheard by those who tune in on the right frequency, Ford also has available a teletype system whose secure method of communicating with the ground is classified top secret. In an atomic age, the President cannot afford to be out of touch for as much as a split second...
Seat racing was the method that had been used to weed out 32 women from the 75 who had competed at the women's National Championships at Princeton in June, and once those 32 had arrived at the Olympic Camp at Harvard, seat racing had been used to trim the number to 11. As the crowds thinned out, the pressure had grown less and less intense; no longer was there a swarm of women to speculate about, to compare yourself to, to try to rank in lists. Now everyone knew more or less where they stood. It only remained...