Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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Thomas McMahon, McKay Professor of Applied Engineering and author of McKay's Bees, and his research assistant Peter Greene specialize in biomechanics, a newly invented scientific method which unites biology and engineering. Constructing synthetic models of limbs, eyes and other body parts, the pair attempt to solve medical problems by discovering, simply, what went wrong in the mechanics. They have already made headlines for their peculiar specialty: in 1977, they experimented with artificial legs to discover the ideal running ground and came up with the celebrated new track for Harvard's Indoor Tennis and Track Building. The track has both...
...fact, views are not so much exchanged as imposed. The classroom ambience is strict, and the rote method of learning prevails. A question is asked. Hands are raised aloft by students eager to give the answer...
...have for decades loudly proclaimed their goal of destroying the bourgeois world (they have become more circumspect lately), while the West merely smiled at what seemed to be an extravagant joke. Yet destroying a class is a process that has already been demonstrated in the U.S.S.R. So has the method of exiling an entire people into the wilderness in the space of 24 hours...
Total divestiture of South Africa-related stocks would be the "least time-consuming and most to the point" method of dealing with any tainted investments found in further checks, O'Brian said, although he added that the city could "take a bath" if forced to sell off certain long term bonds. "That money would have to be replaced in next year's tax levy," O'Brian said...
Edgar Haber, professor of Medicine and an associate of MGH, said that an increase in the availability of hearts, a method of overcoming organ rejection and better mechanical ways for keeping people alive while they wait for hearts could lead to a reversal of the decision