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Word: methods (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...officer, code-named "Ed" by his Soviet contact, slowed his car on New Jersey's Garden State Parkway near Woodbridge. On the side of the road, at a prearranged spot, he nervously dropped an orange juice container stuffed with documents describing the U.S. Navy's top secret method of tracking enemy submarines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Sloppy Spies | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

Moreover, Ravenel believes that his energy program will help end inflation. He advocates the deregulation of gasoline prices and a program for controlled fuel consumption, hoping to reduce American dependence on foreign oil. In addition, he supports "cogeneration," a method of harnessing the steam and excess energy released from factory smokestacks. This method currently provides 29 per cent of West Germany's electrical needs, he says, and could provide up to half of America's demands...

Author: By Norbert J. Vonnegut, | Title: Facing a Tradition | 5/31/1978 | See Source »

...best - as in Liszt's Ballade in B-Minor, on the IPA/Desmar record - the massive rumbling bass is an effective counterpoint to the ethereal run-work in the treble. It is an inspired interpretation; method and material work in harmony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Nine Wives and 700 Works Later | 5/29/1978 | See Source »

When Waddill was put on trial for murder, to the accompaniment of demonstrators waving antiabortion placards, he denied Cornelsen's story. Instead of strangling the baby, he said, he was simply using a common method of feeling its pulse. But his key defense was that the baby was never really alive outside the uterus and that no doctor could have saved it. After hearing 13 weeks of conflicting testimony, the jury had to decide whether "Baby Girl Weaver," as the fetus was known, was ever legally alive outside her mother's womb, and whether the actions (or inactions...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Ordeal off a Divided Jury | 5/22/1978 | See Source »

...putting several hundred papers through this process, Hirsch hopes to develop a new method of grading. Says he: "If it takes two minutes to read the good version and 2.3 minutes to read the original student version, that gives you a proportion of 87%, meaning the student's paper is 87% effective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Relative Readability | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

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