Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nukes is a cute expression for nuclear reactors, which leave nuclear waste. The best scientific minds are not yet in agreement as to a reasonable and economic method of disposition of nuke waste materials. Until this is resolved for future generations, nukes are for kooks...
...best Cheever stories act like fulcrums: they translate considerable social weight into emotional power. The art is one of indirection, of inescapable conclusions drawn from shadowy evidence. Describing people watching in The Summer Farmer, Cheever captures his own method: "It is true of even the best of us that if an observer can catch us boarding a train at a way station; if he will mark our faces, stripped by anxiety of their self-possession; if he will appraise our luggage, our clothing, and look out of the window to see who has driven us to the station...
...beset last year by controversy over its term-bill method of funding, finds itself plagued this year by the opposite problem--not scrutiny, but apathy. Despite the extension of its deadline date for self-nomination of candidates, only about 20 of a possible 40 seats have contestants...
STOCKHOLM -- Two Americans and a Swiss won the Nobel Prize for medicine for their discovery of a method to break apart genetic material that may be an important step in the understanding of cancer and hereditary diseases...
Gilbert and the team of scientists traveled to England to devise a method to make bacteria produce human insulin, an experiment which can only be performed in Britain because of less stringent regulations...