Word: tinkered
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...there are other ways to get around the law as well. Some people tinker with birth certificates; others pay bribes, though that may not always work. Yuri, who also declined to give his last name, had a family friend who was a colonel. "He signed a medical certificate which says that I am weakened from my childhood meningitis," he says. "It's valid until I turn 27." He didn't have to pay a thing. But he says he knows friends in Moscow that paid $10,000 for similar papers. "Draft-dodging is a national pastime," says Alexander Golts...
...plans to tinker with his pitch selection and take more risks, in hopes that the flashes of dominance he displayed in his rookie campaign—like in that Yale game, where he struck out eight batters in seven innings—become a recurring theme in his outings this year...
...keep throwing money at a housing policy that concentrates poor families in massive housing projects and hopes for the best. We can't keep wishing kids into success by simply declaring that no child will be left behind. We must stop treating the poor as laboratory subjects that we tinker with in our pricey think tanks and universities." - in a 2007 speech, New York Times...
...could be plucked from the annals of history. Nature writing has a long and rich history, extending from the Greek poets; to Wordsworth, Thoreau, and Muir in the 19th century; to the 1970s renaissance of nature-based works like Annie Dillard’s “Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.” Embedded in all this lyricism is an environmental ethics—descriptions of breathtaking beauty move us to realize why nature should not be destroyed and encourage us to industrialize responsibly...
...next few years. The Conservatives have consistently furthered the interests of the European Union in complete disregard of the interests of our own country. Mr. Cameron conforms to that Conservative policy. Even as Prime Minister, he will have no real power and will only be able to tinker with ? peripheral matters and, like his immediate predecessors, will spend much of his time posing on the international stage. Stanley Booton, SOMERSET, ENGLAND...