Word: tinkers
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...Edward Heath, who took Britain into the European Economic Community in 1973. The Conservatives have consistently furthered the interests of the E.U. over those of the U.K., and Cameron is continuing that policy. Even as P.M., he will have no real power and will only be able to tinker with peripheral matters. Like his immediate predecessors, he will probably spend much of his time posing on the international stage. Stanley Booton, Somerset, United Kingdom...
...scouting party to the future almost totally unnoticed by students. President Faust’s announcement of an advisory committee to propose changes to the campus’s physical infrastructure didn’t attract the sort of attention that’s accompanied the initiatives to tinker with the Administrative Board or reconsider the Undergraduate Council. But in the long run, poured concrete has a much longer lifespan than disciplinary styles—today, Eliot dining hall remains more intact than President Eliot’s curriculum. Rather than leaving this discussion in the hands of experts...
...jury deliberating a violation of state or federal drug laws, we will vote to acquit, regardless of the evidence presented. Save for a prosecution in which acts of violence or intended violence are alleged, we will - to borrow Justice Harry Blackmun's manifesto against the death penalty - no longer tinker with the machinery of the drug war. No longer can we collaborate with a government that uses nonviolent drug offenses to fill prisons with its poorest, most damaged and most desperate citizens...
Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun aptly described this endless activity as "tinker[ing] with the machinery of death." He spoke as a veteran tinkerer, having helped cook up an abstruse set of requirements for calculating the aggravating and mitigating factors in a prisoner's life and crimes--a concept that continues to bog down juries and judges a generation later. Other veterans of the Supreme Court's long struggle with capital punishment have also soured on the experiment. Justice Lewis Powell told a biographer that the vote he most regretted was the one he cast in 1987 to save capital...
...certainly didn’t look like the Harvard of old on the ice this weekend, as the lines reflected an effort to mix experienced veterans with talented newcomers. Twenty-three different players logged ice time during the two-game series, which gave Stone an opportunity to tinker with the lineup. Fortunately for the Crimson, all lines seemed to gel relatively well this weekend. Given that most teams outside of the Ivy League are already in the midst of their regular-seasons schedules, finding the right line combinations is always a bit of an expedited process for Harvard...