Word: methods
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COMBINATION. The method that has received widest medical approval in Western nations for about 30 years. The woman uses a rubber diaphragm to cover the mouth of the womb, in combination with spermicidal cream or jelly. Used by 35% of U.S. couples...
ABSTENTION. The only sure method...
...right and proper that the size of the family should be restricted." This, Dr. Fisher seemed to suggest, constitutes a Catholic approval in principle of family planning. In this light, "there need be no difference" between Protestants and Catholics as to policy. The remaining differences, he suggested, are about method-the "safe period and abstinence" endorsed as the only permissible ones by the Catholic Church, and "other methods" approved by Protestants. The temper of the debate in the U.S. might be very different if it took its cue from Dr. Fisher's conclusion: "It is wise to leave...
...using them for communication. But not until seven years later, in 1944, did his system get a trial. Then he proved that waves from a 4-lb. depth charge exploded 4,000 ft. below the ocean's surface can be heard 1,200 miles away. This communication method is now called SOFAR (sound fixing and ranging), and it can carry a signal across an ocean...
Another school of technicians, typified by Lowry's Reports. Inc., pins most of its faith on a charting method -called breadth of market studies-that is widely used by other Wall Streeters. What Lowry's does is chart volume of stocks advancing and declining, correlate these figures with price gains and losses. The Lowry's chart shows whether buying power is stronger than selling pressure, and the reverse. Currently, the chart indicates that buying power, while weaker than selling pressure, is getting stronger...