Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...daily from 100 to 200 (in sets of 100) added jumping jacks, jogging along the exterior of the cells and situps. Things were going very well, too well, I decided. I needed more stress to bring my will to maximum power. I turned to my old reliable method of ordeal by fire. This test would have to exceed all others in destruction of tissue and time of severe pain...
...admissions committee, alumni, and the coaches have tried to develop a method in the face of the swelling madness, experiences of Harvard varsity athletes furnish a patchwork of no particular pattern. Crimson soccer forward Mauro K. Sarmiento '82 of Buenos Aires, for instances, one of the squad's leading goal scorers the last two seasons, says he had no idea about what sort of athletic program Harvard offered. "In fact, I wrote to the athletic department after I was accepted and received no response," he adds...
...made bolder moves, he has become more controversial than before. In his latest annual report, Bok took on the Business School's curriculum when he "publicly attacked," in the words of a B-School professor, the former dean and the school's narrow emphasis on the case method and the training of private enterprise managers. Five years earlier, Bok had flatly stated: "No president can ever claim the knowledge to pass judgment on the proper direction of faculties so diverse and specialized as Business, Law, Divinity and Public Health," but pass judgment he did. "Derek is okay when he stays...
...method lay in disrepute...
...standard method of diagnosing hypoglycemia is the glucose tolerance test (GTT). After an overnight fast, the patient is given a high-glucose solution to drink. Blood samples are then taken at intervals over the next five to six hours and analyzed to see if the glucose content drops below normal levels...