Word: tinkers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Medicaid abortions, he was aware of " 'another world' out there, the existence of which the Court, I suspect, either chooses to ignore or fears to recognize." Just two months ago, he came to the defense of life's greatest losers when he pronounced that "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death." In a society where those who cannot buy high-priced lawyers are disproportionately executed, he wrote that "whether a human being should live or die is so ... rife with all of life's understanding, experiences, prejudices and passions -- that it inevitably defies the rationality and consistency...
Formulae are entered in standard mathematical notation, rather than calculator shorthand. Results are rendered in clean 3-D perspective at the blink of an eye and are updated dynamically. (An aside for those who like to tinker: the multi-colored Apple logo from the Puzzle desk accessory may be copied and pasted into Calculator, where it will properly map onto the surface of whatever function is being graphed--pretty cool...
...dramatic dissent from the Supreme Court's refusal to hear an appeal for a stay of execution, Harry Blackmun, the court's most senior Justice, authored a highly personal repudiation of the death penalty, which he had long upheld. "From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death," wrote Blackmun...
...From this day forward, I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death...
...wear out like old machines, as Thomas Jefferson, then 78, sagely wrote to the 81-year-old John Adams in 1814: "We must expect that, worn as they are, here a pivot, there a wheel, now a pinion, next a spring, will be giving way: and however we may tinker them up for a while, all will at length surcease...