Word: methods
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...method of tracking [attendees] is not very scientifc, because we don’t require swiping,” Benefield says. “Hopefully we’ll have a better system in place [for tracking students] with renovations...
...embarrassed by any of your votes. That’s not the point of roll-call,” Glazer said, referring to the fact that during a roll-call vote, a representative’s vote is linked to his name—unlike in the hand-count method usually used—and constituents can see on the UC website how their representative voted...
...method is conversion, not coercion, it is self-suffering, not the suffering of the tyrant,” Gandhi wrote. The story of India’s nonviolent fight for independence is well known. If nothing else, the popularity of the 1982 film Gandhi ensured that, setting both its eponymous hero and his partner, Jawaharlal Nehru, who would become India’s first Prime Minister, firmly in the American consciousness...
First, Viscusi and Aldy’s method would produce a much lower estimate for “the value of a statistical life” in a Third World country, where workers might—out of necessity—accept much greater risks for higher pay. (Many will find this observation so repugnant that it renders the entire “statistical life” approach illegitimate...
First, Viscusi and Aldy’s method would produce a much lower estimate for “the value of a statistical life” in a Third World country, where workers might—out of necessity—accept much greater risks for higher pay. (Many will find this observation so repugnant that it renders the entire “statistical life” approach illegitimate...