Word: rigging
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...11¢ a pound doesn't mean that anyone can make it explode at a particular time and place. The act of terror that demolished the Murrah building and destroyed scores of human lives required a basic understanding of chemistry, skill at bombmaking and some technical know-how to jury-rig a few key components that are not easy...
...goals of Title IX are to increase opportunity for female athletes and provide funding comparable to that received by men's teams. These goals have largely been achieved, despite the failure to acheive the strict 50/50 ratio. The attempt to jerry-rig this nominal goal will only close the doors to male and female athletes in the long...
...corruption within the government, by definition, reduces the effectiveness and legitimacy of that government. When politicians care more about lining their pockets or gaining power than protecting their constituents and the law, our quality of life will surely degenerate. When President Richard Nixon abandoned honesty and attempted to rig his chances of winning the presidency, he came closer than any man has ever come to staging a coup and subverting our democracy...
...cubicle in some Edge City office complex. I telecommute from home -- from her home, from her sofa. I sit there all day long, munching through my dwindling stash of tax-deductible jelly beans, wearing an operator's headset, gripping the control unit, using it like a puppeteer's rig to control other people's Rasters on other people's screens, all over the U.S. I can see them -- the wide-angle view from their set-top boxes is piped to a window on my screen. But they can't see me -- just Raster, my avatar, my body in the Metaverse...
...government wants to stamp us out,'' the big guy says. ``We can do what they do -- cheaper and better.'' For the first time, light dawns on the face of the Simoleons CEO. ``Wait a sec,'' he says, and puts his hands to his temples. ``You can rig it so that people who use E-money don't have to pay taxes to any government? Ever...