Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...More than a decade has passed since the first calves, lambs and piglets were cloned, and yet there are no dairy herds composed of carbon-copy cows, no pigpens filled with identical sows. While copying particular strains of valuable plants such as corn and canola has become an indispensable tool of modern agriculture, cloning farm animals, feasible as it may be, has never become widespread. Even simple embryo splitting, the technique used by the George Washington University researchers on human cells, is too expensive and complicated to take off commercially. "Cloning," says George Seidel, an animal physiologist at Colorado State...
...Think of the midterm as a diagnostic tool...
...tempting to give Melvins the benefit of the doubt, to assume that their new album is a parody of grunge as a marketing tool, a parody of Donna Karan and mail-order flannels. But there is something so damned earnest about Buzzo's lame guitar solos on "Set Me Straight," and something so ridiculously self-important about the clunky tempo changes of "Lizzy" that it's hard to give Houdini the benefit of the doubt, let alone the benefit of a second listen. And while Houdini does have one redeeming virtue--namely, "Honey Bucket," a song built around a tight...
...other hand, think of our automobile industry. Not only is it our nation's largest direct employer, but it also accounts for hundreds of thousands of indirect jobs. Jobs for tool and die makers, jobs for plastics workers, jobs for truckers, jobs for fork-lift operators, and, yes, jobs for investment bankers...
...since that time, neither organization has filed the tax returns required of all nonprofits by both the state and federal governments. The returns, which are open to public inspection, are an important tool used by government officials and interested observers to keep tabs on the financial dealings of nonprofits...