Word: methods
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Without a union, clerical and technical workers will still have to live under policies that are objectionable and that they had no part in making. Their wages, for instance, are determined in part according to bosses' evaluations of the quality of their work--a method of determining pay that is reminiscent of the high-pressure productivity scales that unions have all but eliminated in industry. Without a union, clerical and technical workers will remain under the total domination of Harvard administrators who are not always as kind as they decided to be this year...
...flat area of the country bicycles are the best method of transportation. While the cost of having a car is prohibitive, used bikes can be purchased cheaply or rented for a couple rupees (20 cents) a day. In the foothills or mountains, however, the only way to get there is to walk. Most of the Himalayan area is cut off in summer as well as winter. This part of the country, still one of the remotest areas of the world, is about as hard to traverse today as it was for the early Tibetans on their way to the Valley...
...Kerr's demonstrations is called "Save the Green," a simple technique in which two different dishes can be made from one bunch of broccoli. Another shows a workable method of skinning tomatoes, which he adds to a "simple white sauce for a fish filet, making an economical and nutritious dish." For kitchen weepers, he presents a way of cutting onions without expending a tear. Some forthcoming Graham goodies include a curdle cure for hollandaise and a technique for cutting hamburger shrinkage by folding an ice cube frozen with soy sauce into the middle of a patty. Other Kerr culinary...
...example, Bok said, a frequent complaint is that classes are too large. "Clearly it is the method of teaching rather than the size of the class itself that is critical," he said...
Died. William D. Coolidge, 101, scientist and inventor; in Schenectady, N.Y. After joining General Electric's pioneering research labs in 1905, Coolidge discovered the method for drawing out of tungsten the hair-thin filaments used in incandescent light bulbs, and later perfected "the Coolidge tube," which remains the basis of modern X-ray units...