Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...astonishing how many ways the Middle East's antagonists can find to thwart peace. Lately, the preferred method has been to dither. Now Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak has stepped in with a proposal to goose the main parties into conversation, only to find even those modest efforts mired in debate. After an inconclusive round robin of talks in Cairo, Washington and New York, Mubarak went home warning -- not for the first time -- that a "golden opportunity" was about to be missed...
...people can come in to an unintimidating atmosphere, sit in a classroom and talk, work things through, and find out how people learn, just as we do at the tennis college." The company agreed and in 1987 signed him to a five-year contract. Ski magazine also likes his method, naming his Aspen school the best in the country this year...
However this method will not solve the problem by itself. To begin with, it does not always work. Last week's rejections demonstrate that even the name and resources of Harvard are not irresistable...
...addition, the "hiring away" method is insufficient because it does not make a contribution to the nationwide dearth of women and minority academics. This is not to suggest that Harvard can be faulted for going after the finest available scholars. Academic excellence, after all, is this institution's modus vivendi...
This general procedure was created initially by I.I. Rabi, a Nobel laureate who was Ramsey's Ph.D adviser at Columbia. Ramsey improved on Rabi's method by separating the oscillating field into two smaller fields, which increased the precision of the experiment and the accuracy of the measurement...