Word: tinkerings
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...accomplish his objectives. But in his first 18 months in office, the son has shown a similar proclivity for prudence. Bush holds off on using his clout until the facts are in and he can close the deal. And once a plan is in place, he doesn't tinker. In some cases, that has proved a virtue: he didn't rush the bombing in Afghanistan and stayed the course when the battle plan stalled in October. "He runs the presidency on his own timetable," aides like...
...confined to the nature reserves. Brilliant blooms line the Brand Highway on the way to Dongara. To admire them, stop at the Western Flora Caravan Park 22 km north of Eneabba. The park is owned and run by one of the state's best-known amateur botanists, Allan Tinker. During the season he conducts a daily wildflower walk through his 65-hectare property. Nature has been generous: some 800 species of flowering plants thrive here. The park's accommodations cater to all comers, with self-contained mud-brick chalets, caravans and camping. Three-course home-cooked meals, prepared by Tinker...
...former theater director and son of a classical musician, took the arty road, making operatic, actor-centric films that sometimes (The Godfather, Apocalypse Now) found large audiences. Lucas, who had written a third-grade theme that began, "Once upon a time in the land of Zoom..." and loved to tinker with cars, replayed his Modesto, Calif., adolescence in American Graffiti. Then he reworked the beloved comic books and B-movie serials of his youth into Star Wars, a film as stylized and sterile as a piece of abstract animation, yet an adventure potent enough to please mass audiences...
...Supreme Court’s decision should be motivated by more than practicality. As Justice Abe Fortas argued in Tinker v. Des Moines, “In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are ‘persons’ under our Constitution...
...Supreme Court’s decision should be motivated by more than practicality. As Justice Abe Fortas argued in Tinker v. Des Moines, “In our system, state-operated schools may not be enclaves of totalitarianism. School officials do not possess absolute authority over their students. Students in school as well as out of school are ‘persons’ under our Constitution...