Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...computer age, it looks like a hopeless mess of numerical gibberish. But when completed, these arcane instructions should produce a computer image of the heart detailed enough to show every major artery and vein, as well as valves and chambers. The electronic heart is part of a teaching tool George is putting together for eighth-grade biology classes...
...programmed disc and write them onto the blank. Manufacturers, of course, have tried to prevent this, usually by scrambling the information in such a way that a straightforward reading of the disc will either generate garbage or erase the program. One way around that is a burglary tool called Locksmith. Designed to permit computer owners to make back-up copies of their store-bought discs, the $100 program also can pick open most software written for the Apple. Says the Needham pirate: "If you have Locksmith, you can copy a game in five minutes...
...have nothing to do with executive ability." Lakian explains, adding that "a good university president has more qualifications than a state representative." The predominant skill necessary for a governor is the ability to manage and operate the state, to plan it as one would a company. That is the tool that requires experience and development. In effect, government is just one of many fields to which the professional "executive" can apply his expertise...
Other influences besides time have conspired to drive Masters further away from day-to-day involvement of House life. With the demise of the interview system most Masters now see the recruitment and selection of tutors and Senior Common Room members as their strongest tool for shaping House life. Rather than financing their own teas and open houses. Masters now receive an average of $1000 from the College for entertainment, though many still dip occasionally into their own pockets to make ends meet. Two Masters say they have contributed up to $5000 of their own money toward food and alcohol...
ARGUING THAT CHRISTIANITY should influence politics--arguing, indeed, that a recommitment to its doctrines might change this country and this world--begs for quite correct historical rebuttal. Organized religion, particularly Christianity, has rarely been a weapon for justice, and often a tool for subjugation. To answer, there is only the still developing idea that a new sort of Christianity is possible. Or rather, an old sort--a Christianity along the lines suggested by King, by the Latin Americans, and by Christ himself. And then there is this. No other solution, from secular Marxism to rational capitalism, has changed the world...