Word: tooled
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Retiring World Bank President Robert McNamara and former Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in their valedictories last year both decried that trend as "disgraceful." And so it may be. Foreign aid is not a "giveaway" but an indispensable tool of U.S. policy. But the public attitude is also understandable, given the galling hypocrisy of Third World leaders who ritualistically excoriate the U.S. even as they accept American handouts. Inevitably, perhaps, the U.S. is widely identified with the prosperous and often profligate elites of poor countries...
Irony is the sportswriter's most valued tool. It elevates merely exciting events to the realm of the extraordinary. The Oakland Raiders' Super Bowl victory, for instance, was a prime example--as the first wild card entry ever to win, it was interesting, but Jim Plunkett's remarkable comeback made it a story in the fullest sense...
...much a symbol for President Reagan as peanuts were for Jimmy Carter. Reagan observed that he "became addicted" to jelly beans when he gave up smoking decades ago. He kept a jar on the cabinet-room table in Sacramento when he was Governor, and even found them a useful tool in judging his associates. Said Reagan: "You can tell a lot about a fella's character by whether he picks out all of one color or just grabs a handful." Thus was born The Ronald Reagan Jelly Bean Character Test, which obviously needs some clarification before Reagan uses...
Sculpture restoration is delicate work: a slip of a tool can destroy craftsmanship that has survived thousands of years. Restorers at the National Museum of Reggio Calabria kept the statues for three years and cleared them of superficial dirt. But to remove encrusted sand, gravel and stones, the prizes were shipped to the Archaeological Museum in Florence. Experts there spent five years employing special scalpels, tiny hammers driven by compressed air and a new, ultrasonic cleaning technique to remove the remaining detritus. What had saved the works, besides the restorers' loving labors, was the sand into which they...
...Hughes Tool Co. in Houston, for example, both union and nonunion employees get quarterly cost of living raises whenever the CPI rises by .3%. The 1.3 million military personnel or their eligible survivors received two increases in 1980: a 6% boost in March and a 7.7% one in September. Says Lieut. General Leroy J. Manor, executive vice president of the Retired Officers Association...