Word: methods
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...standards rest on less than hard science, the methods for determining whether a cell phone meets them look even more arbitrary. The testing procedure involves beaming radio waves into a "phantom"--or stand-in for a human head--and measuring the amount of energy absorption. The results hinge on how near the radiation source is to the phantom and just where it is pointed. Yet there is no agreed-upon method for conducting these tests--an astonishing omission that the IEEE and its European counterpart hope to remedy this year. "Until there is a single, uniform measuring standard...
There is a third method of dealing with examination questions—that is by the use of an overpowering assumption, an assumption so cosmic that it is sometimes accepted. For example, we wrote that is was pretty obvious that the vague generality was the key device in any discussion of examination writing. Why is it obvious? As a matter of fact, it wasn’t obvious at all, but just an arbitrary point form which to start. His is an example of an unwarranted assumption...
...Hulsey received notes from women in D.C., Chicago, New York, London and other locales. Although only one undergraduate e-mailed him, a number of women at the Law School, who were in the midst of exams at the time, found out that e-mailing Hulsey was a great procrastination method...
...Trying to smoke a carry-on bag b) Prominent Born to Bong tattoo c) Unusually large and lumpy butt d) Request for a middle seat between David Crosby and Method...
...Number of American high school teachers surveyed in 1988 who said the only method of birth control they promoted to students was abstinence...