Word: drill
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...people who shop at K Mart know what a drummel drill is [BUSINESS, Oct. 6]? Or a mandoline? Do they use these esoteric devices? Do they eat quinces regularly? I am amazed that life-style guru Martha Stewart thinks she can transform K Mart discount stores by capitalizing on her ideas for home decorating and cooking elaborate meals. Surely her success is due to her ability to sell a dream (not products) to thousands of would-be Marthas. Sure, we'd like to do all of the "good things" she tells us about, but those of us who shop...
...neared the end of her first season--an exhausting an exhilarating drill in new equipment and team relations--Mayer felt her dream taking shape...
Often parents are chagrined to find they cannot do mathematics in a non-skill-and-drill format and therefore assume these lessons are of no value to their children. CONSTANCE KELLY West Bloomfield, Mich...
...Will it succeed? "There isn't an instant cure," warns Thompson. At the very least, the Army has recognized a very basic fact ? that when male drill sergeants are given absolute power over young female recruits, top brass must take care...
...Among their solutions: an extra week of "sensitivity training" for male recruits, and tougher screening of drill instructors. It's a good public relations exercise, says TIME military correspondent Mark Thompson. "Because of the Army's relatively swift action, most people will think the situation was handled fairly." In other words, this is an effort to prevent the Aberdeen training camp controversy from becoming as embarassing as the 1991 Tailhook scandal was for the Navy...