Word: tooled
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...began as a minor traffic violation and ended with the fatal shooting of a police officer, a woman's murder and the discovery of a full female scalp in a stolen car. Alex Mengel, 30, a Guyanese-born tool-and-die maker, was returning home from a weekend of target shooting in the Catskill Mountains when a Westchester County, N.Y., police officer made the mistake of pulling him over. Noting spent shotgun shells in Mengel's car, the officer radioed for assistance. But before help could come, Mengel allegedly killed him with a single bullet to the head and fled...
Professor Robin Cooper, who uses the software in his required first year MBA course on cost accounting, commented that "It's a very good tool for learning but it's only one tool out of many. It's not going to dominate business school education...
Citizen Hughes contains plenty of grist for a Potomac potboiler: the role of Hughes Tool Co. in building the Glomar Explorer, the secret submarine-recovery vessel; Hughes' plans to run Nevada Governor Paul Laxalt for President; Robert Maheu's part in a half-baked CIA plot to poison Fidel Castro. But the book's chief merit is its direct access to the mind of a callous and frightened man. His fears about antitrust suits, Las Vegas competition and staff loyalty pale before his phobias. Dreading germs, he dictated a "Procedures Manual" for handling anything he was to touch: "Wash four...
...five-day regimen of the capsules will cost from $15 to $18; the tag for six months of use will be a hefty $360. Despite the costs and the limitations as a treatment, health officials are enthusiastic about the new form of acyclovir. "It is a very useful tool," says Mary Guinan, an associate director at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta. "We welcome it as part of our armamentarium in our war against sexually transmitted diseases...
...Dustbuster has transformed Black & Decker from a power-tool company catering to do-it-yourselfers in their workshops to a maker of products for the entire home. Says Vice President Stephen Britt: "Dustbuster got us out of the basement and upstairs." Last year the company moved deeper into the housewares market by paying $300 million for General Electric's small- appliance division. As sales swelled from $1.17 billion in 1983 to $1.53 billion in 1984, profits went from $44.2 million to $95.4 million...