Word: tailoring
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...vote, the House today passed a sweeping welfare reform bill that would end 60-years of federal guarantees of welfare for people who meet certain criteria, and replace it with block grants to states so they could tailor their own programs. But the Republican-led victory is sure to be shortlived, because President Clinton said he will veto the legislation if it reaches the Oval Office. "I am disappointed that Republicans are trying to use the words 'welfare reform' as cover to advance a budget plan that is at odds with America's values," Clinton said. The bill includes provisions...
While many professors like to tailor their courses to their research, Stone says he enjoys teaching a course that provides students with some of the basic "tools" they need before doing more advanced work in their fields...
...TINKER, TAILOR, SOLDIER, CRITIC...
...researchers report that they have pinpointed brain circuits that seem to control the auditory and visual hallucinations of schizophrenia. "We've identified the areas that are responsible for the brain creating its own reality," says neurologist David Silbersweig at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center. "This may help us tailor the medications...
...graven image and preference for the Word had delayed their appreciation of painting (as distinct from furniture or silverware)...Art was mere "limning" and, as Copley complained to West in London, people "regard it as no more than any other useful trade...like that of a Carpenter, tailor or shoe maker, not as one of the most Noble arts in the world. Which is more than a little Mortifying...