Word: tinkers
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Principals now control more of their internal budgets than before the reform. They can make rule changes without school committee and state approval, and can even tinker with curricula...
While the rest of America's medical schools tinker with similar programs, HMS says it plans to stay with this innovation for the forseeable future...
While the rest of America's medical schools tinker with similar programs, HMS says it plans to stay with this innovation for the foreseeable future...
...West and the U.S.S.R. Compared with the prospect of nuclear annihilation, hoodlums smuggling things across borders strike most people as an inevitable and tolerable fact of life. But John le Carre, the most artful chronicler of fictionalized cold war espionage (The Spy Who Came in from the Cold; Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy), takes a less sanguine view of the outlaw capitalism that only intensified after the collapse of the Soviet Union and the breakup of the old world order. Single & Single (Scribner; 347 pages; $26), his 17th novel, provides a fascinating journey through the new landscape of corruption...
...viewed as second-rate, the Minnesota twin of Warren Burger," Sanders notes. "But over time he split with the Chief Justice, finding his own voice on the court." Indeed, ever an open mind, Blackmun reversed his support for capital punishment in 1994. "I shall no longer tinker with the machinery of death," he wrote...