Word: methodically
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...auditor must be ready to tackle a wide range of topics. Are oil companies on schedule for cutting emissions of greenhouse gases, for example, or eliminating the disposal of natural gas by flaring? Do companies operating in countries where the ancient practice of baksheesh remains an accepted business method adhere to a zero-tolerance of bribery? Do manufacturers or retailers that receive supplies and goods from developing countries guard against child and slave labor? Are companies achieving goals aimed at employing more women and minorities...
...goes without saying that the very idea of vouchers is anathema to a city which has yet to come to grips with the failure of progressive social experiments like rent control and Communism. But it is, perhaps, the best practical method so far conceived to advance equality in educational opportunity for all children--something that Cambridge should keep in mind as it struggles to provide for both the new urban elite, who have many choices and the old urban poor, who have...
...higher education, never lived up to its morally defensible Jeffersonian ideal of educating an intellectual few who would serve and advance the national community. Rather, the current system of selection for higher education based on the related criteria of academic performance, scholastic aptitude and IQ, has become a method of distributing society's pecuniary rewards to a select few without regard to future public service...
Instead of settling into a consistent method of teaching, Fraser alternates between lectures, discussions, and uses case studies to keep the class fresh...
...fashioned method of reselling textbooks--posting a few bright flyers on bulletin boards around Harvard, getting a call, making a few bucks--can now be done entirely online...