Several of these athletes were impatient with the authorities' methodical search.
It was a methodical plan that authorities said the two killers plotted well in advance.
LOS ANGELES — With the noise of a Fresno, Calif., meat processing plant drowning out the gunshots, a former convict carried out a chilling and methodical killing spree on Tuesday, the authorities said, leaving two people dead and two more wounded before taking his own life.
TOULOUSE, France — The French authorities were searching on Monday for a man suspected in a string of methodical killings that have terrorized this city and the surrounding area in southwestern France, after an attack outside a Jewish school on Monday morning that killed four people, including three young children.
Part methodical technician, part methamphetamine addict, part parts scavenger, Taylor J. Norton, 22, had a way with getting away with it, the authorities say.
Mulder the maverick, fly-by-the-seat-of-his-pants character who rejects authority and the establishment; Scully – until she started to believe at least – the perennial pragmatist; disciplined, methodical and obsessed with rational explanation.
Finally, we argue that checklists represent a rational and methodical way to develop acceptable practice standards focussed upon the difficult risk mitigation choices that are made by civil protection authorities and at-risk individuals.
By then, medical authorities had begun to reach some of the injured students, more people were evacuated and SWAT teams began a methodical search of the school.
Yet even as authorities released few details about Friday's shootings, the politics of the highly charged abortion issue seemed to outstrip their efforts to be methodical.
