Word: methods
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Khrushchev had gone to Indonesia prepared to offer gifts, which is always a certain method of making Sukarno happy...
...patients whose hearts have been damaged by a shutdown in a coronary artery, a Manhattan surgeon last week reported "encouraging progress" with a new and bloodless method of increasing the circulation. Dr. Ivan D. Baronofsky, chief surgeon at Mount Sinai Hospital, told the New York Heart Association that his technique involves use of X rays to provoke enlargement or multiplication of small, subsidiary arteries in the heart wall so that they will carry more blood...
...make no precise claims for benefit to these patients because none has been observed for longer than a year. It is important, he noted, to rule out the "placebo effect"-many heart patients feel better if they only think that something has been done. Dr. Baronofsky has devised a method, which he would not disclose, to get around this difficulty. He is also comparing irradiated patients with others who have had heart surgery...
...year ago, Houston flew to Japan to learn the technique of printmaking, came back and taught it to the eager Cape Dorset artisans. But the Eskimo print method is still very much his own. He chips the face of the stone flat, then painstakingly files it smooth. Next he polishes the surface by rubbing it with seal oil. Then, brow creased, the Eskimo feels the stone, lets its texture and shape tell him what design is in it. As he works, he depends more on feel than sight to guide him, because the seal lamps make an igloo...
...most businesses, is back-stopped by a staff of experts. Four hundred strong, they breathe gently down a borrower's neck, go over his books thoroughly three or four times a year, shoot out a barrage of advice and warning that keeps companies on their toes. Through this method, Heller not only protects his own money but often prevents companies Tom becoming overextended, accumulating too much inventory, falling into ill-advised deals. He sometimes makes bad guesses: he backed Sydney Albert's overexpanded Bellanca empire before it collapsed (TIME, Oct. 22, 1956), soon after...