Word: methodical
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...raids are an anomaly in recent U.S. history. Rarely are American armed forces used against its own citizens. This strategy begs us to ask whether some other less excessive method could be used to combat the domestic drug industry--and makes us question why the President hasn't sought such a plan...
...line. On the Saturn "skillet" line, workers ride along on a moving wooden conveyor belt as they do their jobs, which enables them to concentrate on their work. Other progressive steps are the use of water-borne paint (rather than oil-based), which reduces pollution, and an aluminum-casting method called the lost-foam process, which produces better-quality engine components with less machining...
Corey taught a generation of chemists to think like those chess masters who start with their vision of a winning board position and then work backward. His method for breaking down compounds, bond by bond, into smaller and smaller components is so rigorously logical that it can be taught to a computer, although Corey says it will be some time before chemistry has the equivalent of a computerized Kasparov...
ANOTHER strange--pardon me, random--system of terminology at Harvard is the ever-growing "romantic encounter" slang. In a true melting-pot method, every student has brought a way of referring to the process of seduction from his or her high school. In a true Harvard semiotic (and pathetic) argument, the number of signifiers far outstrips the mystical signified object. (In other words, we have a lot of words for it, but it doesn't happen much...
...carries herself with the cool, pathetic majesty of the prematurely doomed. She limps swankily, dines on sundaes and cigarettes, treats Claus as if "a male's place is in the deck chair." Irons wears a kept gentleman's tight smile and gracefully calibrates every gesture, his hand describing Palmer method circles in the air as he speaks in a voice mellowed in good schools and fine port. Perhaps there is only a pretense of loving, but pretense is everything. As they argue in bed one night, Claus covers his eyes with a bandanna; both insert their earplugs. Then he holds...