Word: methodical
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...prior scrutiny constitutes only one-half of the Core review process; the program must have some method for insuring that professors and course material don't become stale. Under Gen Ed, even the most stimulating professors often became unexciting after teaching the same material year after year. Despite its guidelines, the Core runs the same risk...
...students, the seven-and eight-year-olds' preferred strategy of play is a sophisticated form of 'migration ball.' Running from one end of the field to the other, the entire team follows the course of the ball. While decreasing the number of players who actually handle the ball, this method increases the number who may hope to handle it. And to a seven-year-old, that hope is the key to the game...
Pope John Paul II may call Roman Catholics who practice artificial birth control immoral. Archbishop Quinn may not be sure what to call them. But the fact remains that most Catholics who use the rhythm method exclusively are generally known as parents...
...Friday the signs turned hopeful again. The Iranian government announced it had drafted a "just method" for effecting the hostages' release. A U.S. Air Force ambulance plane was standing by in West Germany. Khomeini's heir apparent, the Ayatullah Hussein Ali Montazeri, called on the Majlis to work out a settlement. Said he: "This shirking of duty may not be condoned by the revolutionary people of Iran...
Administration officials say that it is likely the President would commit the U.S. to return all the Iranian assets, but he would leave the precise method for doing so to be determined later. The Iranians, who find themselves increasingly isolated in the world community and short of money to fight an expensive war, are apt to go along with a compromise. Whatever the immediate solution, the real winners may be the lawyers, who are likely to earn their own fortunes fighting court battles over the Iranian funds...