Word: tinkered
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think people are going to want to keep reviewing the Core every few years. It's too traumatic," said Paul. "Whatever you do, you don't want to tinker with it in a year...
...Baryshnikov and country music singer Trisha Yearwood. Cymbals and symbols have been muted: there will be no walk across the Memorial Bridge arm in arm with hundreds of schoolchildren while bells ring from coast to coast. This time the Clintons rejected a suggestion that five-year-olds build a Tinker Toy bridge to the 21st century--too frivolous, they decided. The President spent hours sweating the details of Monday morning's national prayer service and handpicked Arkansas poet Miller Williams to muse at the swearing in. "The President and First Lady wanted it to be less of a megillah," said...
...never happened. Reich's view (that a rising economy does not lift all boats) became a quaint anachronism, as President Clinton tacked rightward. Today the Administration is wary of any proposal that might tinker with an economy performing better than ever. Unemployment, currently at 5.3%, is lower than at any other point in the past two decades. "Why mess with what's working?" says Budget Director Franklin Raines. "The growth rate is O.K. We should let things proceed as they...
...play's wackiest moments involve the scientists and their temperamental machine, which they carry around carefully suspended on two poles. Puzuk is supposed to ask Huml a series of questions, but it can't perform its task. Dr. Anna Balcar (Erica Rabbit '00) and Karel Kriebel (Tinker Green) try putting Puzuk, who appears to be a hunk of gears and metal, into the freezer and into the oven in order to adjust its temperature. Nothing seems to work, and technology is represented as a useless primadonna...
...only so much. I felt O.K. in doing so because on most other fronts, I went along with her. Thou Shalt Not Smoke Pot is not the 11th Commandment, I rationalized. Armed with that perspective and the sound of my mother's voice in my head, I could tinker with the rules and push the boundaries without being afraid I would cross them. So, Mom, it was your fault after...