Word: instrumentality
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...they had no means of proving their hypothesis--until the development of the X-ray fluorescence instrument, which measures levels of lead in bone, according...
...utterly mean-spirited instrument to decimate rent control and put at considerable risk many thousands of low- and moderate-income tenants," said Michael H. Turk, chair of the Cambridge Tenants Union...
...uses. Invented by an electronics worker who needed a better tool to pick up tiny components, the Deluxe Tweezerman is every woman's answer to precision cosmetics. Unlike most standard tweezers, which are machine filed and chrome plated and therefore cannot grip very well, this hand-filed, stainless-steel instrument works extraordinarily well for the most delicate maneuvers. Its perfectly fitting edges enable users to remove that one offending hair without pinching the skin or missing the target...
...fate they aren't afraid to test. Giddy with the momentum of their Election Day victories, House Republicans are already venturing beyond the welfare-reform plan outlined in their contract, which is itself a blunt instrument. Like the White House reform bill that was introduced earlier this year, the G.O.P. plan would deny benefits after two years. Unlike Clinton's plan, however, it would not provide jobs for those who can't find them. In a far more radical move, Republicans are also seeking to abolish more than 100 federal programs and replace them with grants to states, which would...
Tone Poems is a beautiful, generous album. Grisman and Rice have devoted themselves to preserving and documenting "the sounds of the great vintage guitars and mandolins." To that end, they each play 17 instruments, one for each of the album's tracks, with Rice on guitar and Grisman on mandolin. The care and affection for these instruments is evident in the lavish forty-page liner notes insert. Replete with more than 100 photographs, it is a mini-documentary on the craftsmanship and evolution of string instrument-manufacturing in this country. But all of this devotion takes the focus away from...