Word: instruments
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Trading policy must be an instrument for change," he said...
...that he got the biggest applause of the night on David Letterman last Thursday when he repeated the "trust" mantra. Indeed, when Gore in the debate brought up the Dingell-Norwood bill, a bipartisan effort to solve the HMO problem, he might as well have pulled a shiny chrome instrument out of his back pocket and performed an invasive procedure on one of the Undecideds. In the face of details, Bush seeks refuge in his own good intentions, expressed in a warm bedside manner. "You can quote all the numbers you want. I'm telling you, we care about...
...John Cage, who incorporated actual noise into his work. For the soundtrack of Fly, Ono simply makes a succession of nerve-jangling vocal sounds--ululations and sudden shrieks, weird cooing and feline melismas--that are unworldly but unmistakably human. To put it mildly, her voice is not the ideal instrument for mainstream pop, but it can have the cracked charm of Neil Young's or Kurt Cobain's. If she had not been too famous by the late '70s to make a name for herself, she might have found a niche in punk. Just hours before Lennon's death...
...realized I was facing a so-called teachable moment. Unfortunately, as one of the three people left in this country who still has her savings in a passbook account, I have a lot to learn before I can teach my kid to play a financial instrument. I'm also worried about turning an innocent adolescent into a day-trading, stock-obsessed teenybopper...
...many girls, physical activity--dancing, playing sports, even playing a musical instrument--is a way of gaining some control over their changing bodies. Says Judy Woodburn of American Girl magazine: "What we hope we can do for girls is emphasize not what their bodies look like but what they...