Word: tailoring
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...mixed neighborhood; just a few doors down from the Hanifs' home hangs a portrait of Jesus. Yet here in this congested slum, nobody appears to have noticed anything amiss as the Hanifs allegedly amassed their massive cache of explosives. "We mind our own business," says Mohammad Faisal, a tailor who lives close to the Hanifs' house. "Once the doors are closed, we have no idea what happens here." Now that it's too late, they are starting to wonder...
...contemporary European history at the University of Florence, since Berlusconi - Italy's richest man, with an estimated worth of over €5.1 billion - owns virtually all of the country's commercial television outlets. And the independence of the Italian judiciary is also under attack, thanks to a string of tailor-made laws passed by the Italian legislature to protect Berlusconi from a bribery prosecution that he says is politically motivated. These laws were capped in June by an immunity bill that stopped the trial against him dead in his tracks - guaranteeing that his time as E.U. president...
...Harrity are making progress, but Blakney's pupils are improving just a hair faster. Kid by kid, Blakney can look at any mathematical concept she's trying to teach--adding fractions with different denominators, for example--and see who understands it and who needs more help. "I can tailor my teaching accordingly," she says. "And I can show the kids. Children want to know 'How am I doing...
...tides, around 12 m, and during the Severn Bore, at the times of the spring and autumn equinoxes, tides of up to 15.4 m rush at 24 km/h up the funnel-shaped channel. But Ayre stresses that huge tidal flows are not essential to the system. "We will tailor the units to be site specific," he explains, "So that in areas with lower tidal flow we'd use larger blades and more of them than we'd need in areas with greater flow." Even with a modest tidal flow, the technology could still be used to desalinate sea water...
This was a more disjointed year—exciting, certainly, but nowhere near as tailor made to fit. There was adversity overcome, surely, with more physical pieces bruised and dented than a garden-variety Pinto. There were individual heroes and an exciting cast of newcomers—names like Klimkiewicz, Farkes, Brunnig and Salsgiver will grace these pages for years to come—and there were pressing, constant problems, like the infield’s downright scary propensity for misplaying grounders. But in the midst of all of this was very little to cling to and run with from...