Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Still, much valuable knowledge is being lost, according to the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, because there is no uniform method for collecting information on unnatural deaths. Increasing numbers of M.E.s believe their expertise can also serve the living victims of assaults. Dr. Charles Petty, chief medical examiner of Dallas, regularly checks bruised children brought to a county hospital to see if they are being battered...
...earlier days the IEM, modeled after a similar program at the Business School, focused discussions on the campus issues of the time, such as, Levine suggests, "how to respond to campus rioting." True to its Business School roots, the IEM utilized the case-study method which continues to dominate the PPE summer programs today...
Although the IEM has developed and changed a lot since its 1969 inception, some students of the program suggest that the case study method is not as useful today as it might have been in the days of campus riots...
Jerusalem cited ample military reasons for wanting Obeid out of action, claiming he has instigated dozens of attacks against Israel and the so-called security zone it maintains in Lebanon. But kidnaping is not the usual method of the Israelis. They may actually have wanted to acquire bait for a hostage swap. Two affiliate groups of Hizballah are believed to be holding three Israeli prisoners of war captured in 1986, two of them soldiers taken in the security zone and the third an air force navigator. Americans wonder if U.S. Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, head of the United Nations peacekeeping...
...more complex. It will only reduce the numbers of various missiles, and inspectors will have to determine how many small cruise missiles are carried aboard bombers and possibly even submarines. Differentiation must be made between nuclear-tipped and conventionally armed cruise missiles, even if they look alike. A method will have to be found to keep track of mobile missiles. With all that, the supreme challenge will be how to prevent new production of banned weapons at secret locations...