Word: tinkers
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...recordings with Johnny Cash. Settling onto his couch, Rubin plays a Cash version of Redemption Day, an overlooked song from a 1996 Sheryl Crow album. "Johnny found this," he says. "I'd never heard it, but it's perfect for him." Rubin was worried that he might have to tinker more than usual with some of the songs in the singer's absence, but after listening to the material again, he decided he was wrong. "I don't think I'll need to do too much. I mean, how much can I really improve Johnny Cash...
Knowing he couldn't compete with the beer conglomerates, he began to tinker with an idea: invent a healthy soft drink using beer-brewing principles. Says Leipold, "One of the goals was to make a drink for children that didn't have any artificial additives and that followed the purity requirements traditionally used to make beer." That meant a product with natural ingredients only: malt, water, sugar, fruit essences. No corn syrup, nothing artificial. And he'd use the same fermentation process he used to make beer - the trick would be leaving out the alcohol...
...hour days, long enough for class to tell and the cream to rise. It was apparent from the first morning of the First Test last year that England would be formidable. Australia had ample time to adjust their attitude, to crank up the intensity of their practices, to tinker with tactics and personnel. They did all of this and still lost...
...Will Abe tinker with Japan's constitution, and allow greater leeway for the country's Self-Defense Forces (SDF) to act abroad? "I'd like to draft a new constitution with my own hands," he told an LDP convention on Sept. 1, when he declared his candidacy for party president. He won't get the chance to do that; but Abe will almost certainly reinterpret the constitution in a way that allows the military to engage in collective self-defense actions with allies, a move Koizumi?no softie on defense?never pulled off, even while he dispatched Japanese forces...
...ideal ranking system, users will be able to adjust the weights various factors, such as school size, average SAT scores, and cost, to find schools that fit them best. We envision an online ranking system that allows tinker with their weighting schemes. (Of course, it is important to exercise caution in weighing rankings, since a college’s worth is based on a wide range of factors.) Evaluations of peer institutions, however, should not be included in the rankings, since they are notoriously difficult to measure...