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Word: tinkered (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...order to maintain "balanced" sex-ratios in each of the 13 Houses, officials will "tinker" with the otherwise random process by establishing minimum and maximum quotas of men and women for each House, Susan A. Neer, the College's housing officer, said yesterday...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Housing Lottery Begins Today; Results Are Due by March 19 | 3/7/1981 | See Source »

SEEKING DIVORCE. Mary Tyler Moore, 43, superb TV comedienne who shone when she branched out to Broadway (Whose Life Is It Anyway?) and Hollywood (Ordinary People); and Grant Tinker, 54, TV producer and co-founder with Moore of MTM Enterprises; after 18 years of marriage, no children; in Los Angeles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Jan. 12, 1981 | 1/12/1981 | See Source »

...core band records basic all-purpose instrumentals (and on this album the music is really basic--one chord rhythms, no choruses, bridges, passages) and then later on lyrics and perhaps a solo instrument are dubbed in. Too bad that Eno couldn't leave well enough alone and had to tinker with the sound more. On "Houses in Motion" he makes a guitar sound like an Arab calling the faithful to pray: a nice trick but an unnecessary diversion. At least four recording processes and locations along with a cast of thousands are listed on the credits, in fact...

Author: By Martin B. Schwimmer, | Title: Beating Heads | 11/26/1980 | See Source »

...offered a tenured assistant professorship at the nation's largest engineering school, Texas A.&M. He would have earned roughly $30,000 teaching computer science. But then a Houston computer firm named Intercomp offered Lucido a job with a pay boost of nearly 50%, plus the chance to tinker with half a million dollars worth of computer graphics equipment far newer than anything to be found on campus. Lucido said goodbye to tenure and went to work for Intercomp. He recalls: "I was disillusioned with academe. There was no money for research projects, and I finally decided there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Bull Market for Engineers | 11/10/1980 | See Source »

...high school late and dabbled briefly in drugs. But friends said that in the past few years he seemed to be on track. Said Janet McLaughlin, 22, another housemate of Meeker's: "Richard wasn't emotionally troubled. He was in love. His job was good." Insisted Grant Tinker: "The movie has absolutely nothing to do with this. There are no parallels." Police were not so certain. They planned several weeks of investigation before attempting to decide whether Meeker killed himself by accident or by design...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: A Game with Death | 10/27/1980 | See Source »

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