But his methods were roundly condemned by sectors of society that found themselves out of favour.
One exception is Texas real estate developer Harlan Crow, who has mixed his methods.
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The real weakness may be not in his methods but in his avowed aims.
Whatever I felt about his methods, Mairbek did not strike me as a sadistic man.
You might have serious reservations about his methods, but you can't fault the man's nerve.
Eriksson also believes Lagerback would adapt his methods to suit the players at his disposal.
If Mr Ocalan deserves his fate, it is not for his aims but for his methods.
While Castle won't pick public stocks, we've applied his methods to some of his favored sectors (see table).
"However, his personality, his methods, have been thrown into a harsh new light by Isaacson's biography, " Kahney told CNN.
Unlike his father, Mr. Becker left voluminous documentation of his methods, though his heirs struggle to organize it all.
And while his grandfather serves as an inspiration, his methods are markedly different.
While Castle won't pick public stocks, we've applied his methods to some of his favored sectors (see table, p. 190).
Nedimyer also spends a lot of time showing high school students his methods and working with them at his nurseries.
Recently, psychiatrists, neuroscientists, and the military have studied his methods for what they reveal about the nature of human attention.
Anglers have spied on him through binoculars, trying to deduce his methods.
Verheijen admits it is more difficult being a consultant but still firmly believes his methods are better than those employed by most coaches.
In addition to those controversies, his methods periodically came under attack from inside journalism, and friendships were lost and colleagues estranged or disillusioned.
The BBC's LJ Rich caught up with Paul Spooner at his cottage-cum-workshop in deepest Cornwall, to learn about his methods, and his motivations.
His methods may be unorthodox, but few of Mr Chavez's fellow-citizens seem to mind: opinion polls put his approval rating at around 90%.
The No. 2 ranked timer is also a bear, though his methods are slightly less conventional (though no more inscrutable) than those of Luciano.
But at times Sir Michael's style has been controversial and his methods hit the headlines in 2007 when he banned pupils from hugging each other.
Regardless of his methods, Puccini mastered the unique and mystifying synthesis of music, drama and stagecraft that only opera can deliver, and with powerful results.
Yet Osborne is every bit as calculatingly political in his methods.
Throughout Erdogan's rise to power, you couldn't get a single Western commentator living in Turkey or outside to raise alarms over his methods or motives.
His methods and courage will likely inspire the next wave of regulators as they seek to make up for lost time using mathematics and good old-fashioned skepticism.
Nobody doubts his entrepreneurial drive, but some question his methods.
But the question with his methods is the same one that hangs over long toss, biomechanics and everything else teams are experimenting with: Will any of it save their pitchers?
Before long, magicians from all over the country were stopping by to see him work, and when they asked him about his methods he realized that he had nothing to tell them.
In the following years, he gave numerous presentations of his methods at The Traders Expos, and by 2007 pivot points were a common feature of pretty much every trading or technical analysis program.
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