Word: instrumentalization
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...heightened sensitivity when a disconcerting flood of E-mail started pouring in. Michel Mayor and Didier Queloz, of the Geneva Observatory in Switzerland, had just detected a planet circling the star 51 Pegasi, lying 45 light-years away in the constellation Pegasus. Says Queloz: "We first thought that our instrument was faulty, but repeated verifications and computations finally convinced us that we had bagged a planet...
...voice becomes a percussion instrument and he taps his foot...
This spring she will examine the transition of the Russian media from an ideological instrument of a socialist society to a free press...
...case a real nuclear device ever is found, NEST's diagnostic and assessment teams have all kinds of equipment, such as portable X-ray machines, with which to peek under the bomb's wrapping. An instrument that looks like a Dustbuster is swept over the outside of the bomb to vacuum up any faint but telling fumes it might emit...
...played the instrument of TIME with panache, style and virtuosity. In his three years at the helm of our flagship, Gaines has given TIME both energy and purpose, and his keen nose for news and for talent have made a great magazine even greater. Many of his covers will live long after their issue dates: the 20th Century Blues, the Case for Killing Social Security, and the Black Renaissance, to name just three. During his tenure, TIME superbly covered the war in Bosnia, the Newt Gingrich revolution and its effect on American politics, the O.J. Simpson trial and, most recently...