Word: tinkers
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Kilby eventually left TI to teach and tinker full time, earning more than 60 patents. One was for a device his wife requested that seems especially relevant in this telemarketing era: it lets you block out unwanted phone calls--though presumably not predawn calls from Stockholm...
Vidal did not tinker with or update his 1960 play for its current Broadway incarnation, preferring to offer it as a period piece, a reminder of a time when important decisions were actually made at political conventions. He says he still had some faith in the U.S. political system when he wrote The Best Man, but no longer does. If he were to put the current situation onstage, "it would be set in a boardroom of something like ITT, General Electric. You'd watch the directors of this big company auditioning politicians, maybe actors. Maybe they'd go directly...
...part of a much broader overhaul of Medicare that would change the program's very nature and put private insurance companies in competition with the government to provide coverage to the nation's 33 million elderly. By comparison, Vice President Al Gore's far more expensive proposal would tinker around the edges of the current system, giving uninsured people as young as 55 a chance to buy into the program and adding prescription-drug coverage on top of the other benefits provided by Medicare...
...Vidal did not tinker with or update his 1960 play for its current Broadway incarnation, preferring to offer it as a period piece, a reminder of a time when important decisions were actually made at political conventions. He says he still had some faith in the U.S. political system when he wrote "The Best Man," but no longer does. If he were to put the current situation onstage, "it would be set in a boardroom of something like ITT, General Electric. You'd watch the directors of this big company auditioning politicians, maybe actors. Maybe they'd go directly...
...part of a much broader overhaul of Medicare that would change the program's very nature and put private insurance companies in competition with the government to provide coverage to the nation's 33 million elderly. By comparison, Vice President Al Gore's far more expensive proposal would tinker around the edges of the current system, giving uninsured people as young as 55 a chance to buy into the program and adding prescription-drug coverage on top of the other benefits provided by Medicare...