Word: methods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...purposes except shots to the moon or toward other planets, where the sun's rays are too weak to be converted into sufficient power. In the 18 times in which the U.S. has sent nuclear power packs into space, it has used a much less dangerous method than the Russians...
...called transitional programs shoot their students into regular English-speaking classrooms as quickly as possible. Under a second technique, called the maintenance method, rapid mastery of English is still the goal. But students continue studying their own culture and language. A third approach, being tried in areas with large Hispanic enclaves, such as New York, Florida and Southern California, is bilingual and bicultural: the programs encourage native-born Americans to achieve fluency in a foreign language even as their counterparts are learning English. In Miami's Coral Way Elementary School, which inaugurated the bicultural method to cope with the huge...
Orne published research papers in the early '60s that sought to show hypnosis is a "very poor method for mind-control...
DIED. Dr. Armand James Quick, 83, renowned medical researcher who did pioneer work on blood disorders; in Milwaukee. Soon after getting his M.D. from Cornell, he developed what came to be known as the Quick test, a method of determining the clotting ability of a patient's blood and of helping to diagnose various diseases. Later research led to new tests for hemophilia. Working at the Medical College of Wisconsin in Milwaukee, he recently identified a new vitamin, appropriately named vitamin Q, which is found in soybean extract and which plays a part in the body's control...
Convention members hesitate to specifically blame CHUL and CUE members for the inadequacy of present student government. Instead they point to structural obstacles that prevent the existing method of student representation from working effectively. "Even if the members of CHUL are doing the best job they can do, they cannot do enough," Pfeffer says. "The structure prohibits results, despite good intentions. Sitting next to important administrators and House masters is intimidating. And even if CHUL representatives try to get a feel for student opinion, it is impossible because there are so few representatives. Also, CHUL is an advisory body...