Method
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Can Macron’s
method
allow EU leaders to break the vicious circle of technocracy and populism, and end the paralysis of the last decade?
Natural climate changes in the past – for example the great ice ages – attest to the sensitivity of our planet’s climate to disturbances, and analyzing them is one
method
used by scientists to estimate this sensitivity.
In 1714, seven years after one of the worst naval accidents in the history of Britain’s Royal Navy, the United Kingdom launched the Longitude Prize, a £20,000 reward (equal to $5 million today) for developing a simple and practical
method
to determine a ship’s longitude reliably.
Similarly, in 1795, the French government, with an army debilitated more by hunger than by enemies, offered prizes to anyone who could develop an effective food-preservation
method.
England’s Peter Durand subsequently built upon Appert’s
method
by using metal cans.
In the end, there is no foolproof
method
to guarantee that political leaders leave without tears.
One can imagine, for example, the Fed adopting an “optimal control” method, whereby monetary-policy settings are established by running multiple simulations of a macroeconomic model using different combinations of interest rates and balance-sheet tools to project future inflation and unemployment.
But the fact that the history of Jews and capitalism calls current social-scientific wisdom and
method
into question is all the more reason to explore the topic.
Macron’s
method
is also marked by a strong reliance on an intergovernmental approach, which most likely reflects his understanding of French voters’ current mood.
Applying the scientific
method
to the problems of science could be scientists’ best hope for regaining public confidence and reinvigorating the quest for transformative discoveries.
As Polonius says of Hamlet, there was
method
to the Old Man’s madness.
And all the qualitative targets, added later in the process, have been used mainly to feed national bureaucracies preparing plans within the so-called “open coordination method.”
Basically, everything – and the method, above all.
The “peer pressure” that should have been exerted in the open coordination
method
has been a powerful tool to exert “peer protection” in justifying delays in attaining the targets.
Hence, the soft method, and the absence of sanctions for countries delaying the process.
Some governments practice an even more direct
method
of suborning favorable coverage.
In most Chinese cities, electronic-wallet apps on mobile phones are replacing cash as the primary
method
of payment.
Digitization disrupts everything: the nature of goods changing hands; the universe of potential suppliers and customers; the
method
of delivery, and the capital and scale required to operate globally.
It is impossible to know whether synthetic organisms like Venter’s JCVI-syn 3.0 or gene-editing techniques will prove to be commercially dominant in biotechnology – or indeed whether some other
method
will supplant both.
Indeed, the true source of his success may consist in his understanding of when to abandon one
method
and devise another.
All could run aground because of Kohl's
method
of personalizing international relations.
There is a distinct order to this method, whereby the current account always comes first, and the requisite offsetting capital flows come second.
The first-past-the-post system is still the most effective
method
of ensuring orderly change.
You can, however, succeed in tickling yourself through an intermediary – a machine, for instance, that translates the movements of your fingers into sensations on the skin by a
method
indirect enough for the cerebellum to be unable to anticipate them.
Indoor spraying remains the most widely used
method
of household insect control worldwide.
But, because antibodies persist in the blood even after recovery, this
method
falsely identifies healthy, non-contagious patients as needing treatment.
Using an isothermal DNA amplification method, called recombinase polymerase amplification, we developed a cold-chain-independent
method
for detecting VL, which we then incorporated into a solar-powered mobile “lab suitcase” that can be used easily in rural settings.
If the broad social goals sound “Democratic,” the
method
and strategy are in many ways “Republican.”
Now consider an alternative
method.
When this
method
of administration has been used elsewhere around the world, it has resulted in firms asserting dubious capabilities without regard to quality, price, or the timeliness of deliveries.
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