Word: method
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...fact, Myers had more first choice votes than Graham, but because the proportional method involves transferring votes from one candidate to another, Graham won the council's ninth seat...
Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev hopes the more open method of selecting candidates will provide a jolt for his lagging reforms. As he explained during the Supreme Soviet that convened in November to approve the procedures, "If we do not carry out a political reform to back up the processes that are now under way in the economy, the restructuring drive will inevitably begin to falter...
...could make any vision, no matter how outrageous, seem persuasively real. It fitted the central claim of surrealism that dreams were superior facts, the incarnation of desire and possibility. But it needed a system of images, and that is what Dali found through what he called his "critical-paranoiac" method. In essence, it meant looking at one thing and seeing another -- an extended version of the face seen in the fire. Heads turn into a distant city, a landscape resolves itself as a still life, inexplicable combinations are seen to lurk magically beneath the skin of the world...
Because Kelso's method of paying for the stock-purchase plans was to borrow against corporate assets, ESOPs also gave rise to the leveraged buyout. But Kelso never intended his technique to be used for buyouts that would put all of a company's stock in the hands of a few investors and top managers. "That is a perversion of my idea," says Kelso, now 74. "Instead of making economic power more democratic, they make it more plutocratic...
...students' commitment is anything but minimal: classes are four nights a week, two hours each night. The intensive method requires the students to miss as few days as possible, a difficult task given the inconsistent nature of their daily schedules...