Last month, the C.D.C. reported that 936 Americans had died of flu symptoms or of flu-associated pneumonia since Aug. 30, when it began a new method of counting of deaths, including some without lab-confirmed swine flu.
The recent decrease in violence is all the more striking because last year the department recorded the fewest homicides since it began a reliable method of compiling crime statistics half a century ago.
Again, this began as a method of optimising performance.
About that time he began developing a method for creating narratives that relied on actors' improvisations to manufacture characters and conflict in an organic manner.
In the late 1950s he began formulating a method for classifying finite simple groups, a task that absorbed his attention for the rest of his life.
In the 1950s, much more influenced by Abstract Expressionist painters than by other composers, he began using a method of graphic notation that included such devices as indicating the length of a note by a horizontal line drawn in the score, or specifying the number of notes to be played in a segment by a number.
For its part, originalism began as a method for resolving constitutional disagreement but it has migrated into discourse theory, as well.
After RIM caved to India and began offering a method to intercept Blackberry Messenger messages within that country, the government has decided that the tools they've been given aren't good enough.
Building on the work of such biologists as Karl Zimmerman (1943), the German entomologist Willi Hennig began synthesizing a method of reconstructing phylogenetic relationships before World War II and published his first synthesis, in German, in 1950.
About three years ago, we began using a method of resuscitation that involves cooling the body temperature right away -- before the patient gets to the hospital.
