Word: instrumentality
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...Experts caution that the Clef du Vin will not magically transform a harsh vin de table into a grand vintage. (You can ruin a good wine by leaving the instrument in the drink too long.) What it can do is help determine which vintages are worth waiting for, and for how long. Wine goes through stages of oxidization, from fermentation and bottling to total oxidization, when it becomes too old to consume. In between, it reaches periods of equilibrium when it is perfect for uncorking. The Clef du Vin helps predict when those periods will fall-and with 95% accuracy...
...lake to find a statue of a child embedded in pristine white salt. The sight had made his wife wistful. "They're all solitary," she says of the sculptures. "There's no mother and child." Such philosophizing is Gormley's intention. "The work is a sort of instrument," he says. "I suppose you might ask yourself, 'What the hell are these things doing here?' Then you might ask yourself, 'What the hell am I doing here...
...Unlike the U.S., Europe has a powerful, Continent-wide tax instrument at its disposal: vat. (Sales tax in the U.S. is administered by states, and thus can't be coordinated for economic effect.) Many economists argue that consumption taxes such as vat are inherently fairer than other types of taxation because you only pay the tax if you buy something. Some even argue that vat rates - which are now largely aligned in the E.U. - could be raised and lowered depending on how the economy is doing, just as the European Central Bank raises interest rates to prevent overheating, and lowers...
...Exploring Saturn With its half-dozen sensitive instruments, the Huygens probe is designed to study the atmosphere and surface of Saturn's largest moon, Titan. Read explanations of each separate instrument here...
...contention that Starr was an "instrument in a grand design...