Word: methodism
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...since Derek Bok was named president of Harvard University, and nearly ten years since he assumed office. Over the past decade, Bok has managed to keep Harvard gliding across turbulent times on an even keel. He has made himself a man of open letters, suing that ingenious and forthright method to silence critics and divert the energies of a contentious community. When the issue of Harvard's holdings in companies doing business in South Africa and a proposal to name the Kennedy School library after an American entrepreneur in South Africa threatened to alienate large parts of the community...
...woman's fallopian tubes are blocked. Doctors remove an egg from the prospective mother, fertilize it with her husband's sperm outside the body, and then emplant the embryo in the woman's womb. Biggers said no more than four babies have been conceived and born using the method...
...alternative method would be to produce and transfer more than one embryo, Biggers said. He added, however, that the modification could result in multiple births. Another method would be the removal of several eggs at a time to allow for repeated attempts at implantation, he said...
...Harvard Law Review, a prestigious law journal, yesterday altered its method of selecting members to try to increase the number of minorities and women on the publication...
...Saturday morning at 10 a.m., the bankers reconvened in the Secretary's conference room on the third floor of the Treasury Building. For the next nine hours they negotiated over the method for transferring the assets to Iran, while consuming gallons of coffee along with chicken salad and roast beef sandwiches from the Capitol Hill Deli. Meanwhile, telephone and telex lines were kept open round the world. Explained one banker: "All this had to be communicated periodically by telex to the Iranians to make sure that it was O.K. We conveyed each document as we concluded it." Government officials...