Word: tinkering
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...think it is the role of the university-centered school of education to tinker. Let commercial publishers tinker with materials . . . Let there is colleges and state departments of education tinker with training facilities. But in secondary education -- and perhaps from kindergarten through high school -- let one major private university have the courage to start from the beginning...
...teachers' colleges and state departments of education tinker with training facilities. But in secondary education -- and perhaps kindergarten through high school -- let one major private university have the courage to start from the beginning...
...forged in France in 35 pieces. Its 27-ton bulk took a ton and a half of nuts and bolts to hold it together and a four-ton concrete foundation. At present, it is the largest Calder in the Western Hemisphere. But not for long. The silver-haired tinker is already at work on a 65-ft.-high by 94-ft-wide stabile in unpainted stainless steel, to be set on an island in the St. Lawrence in time for the 1967 Montreal World's Fair. Its name...
...than in the U.S. Britain's 40% corporate tax compares to 48% in the U.S., but personal income taxes reach 91% on all earnings above $36,400 v. a top of 70% on incomes above $100,000 in the U.S. Now, Britain has embraced deliberately discriminatory taxes to tinker with its troubled economy. That may well prove a high price to pay in order to placate foreign creditors without sacrificing prosperity, for it still fails to dig at the roots of Britain's problem: lax management and hidebound labor...
...from a free-thinking London model (Jane Merrow) who smoothly beats him at his own game. She lets him drive her Buick Riviera and invites him to her father's luxurious summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...