Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...High levels of uric acid are usually evidence of gout but have now also been found in some cases of otherwise symptomless high blood pressure. The discovery may give doctors a new diagnostic tool...
Archaeologists digging in southeastern Turkey have unearthed what appears to be the oldest piece of cloth ever found. The partly fossilized swatch measures 1 1/2 in. by 3 in., and was wrapped around the handle of a tool made from an antler. It's presumed to be linen, and it has been dated to about 7000 B.C., making it at least 500 years older than any other cloth previously discovered...
...business world, but are qualified to teach it to others? A small committee of HBS faculty would not only be in position to examine and redirect the endowment's investment's but could also draw on this direct management of a large corporation as a hands-on teaching tool...
...lofty claim, since the 20-to-29 age bracket has so far been conceptualized more as a marketing tool than an active social force; its members can't even agree on a name. The term "twentysomething" dates quickly, while "Generation X" is meaningless to most of the people it's meant to describe, according to a recent poll by MTV. Nonetheless, the ambitious "declaration" of this hard-to-label generation will soon be curling out of fax machines all over the U.S. "Like Wile E. Coyote waiting for a 20-ton Acme anvil to fall on his head," reads...
...some professors say checking can go too far, and ruin the atmosphere of a laboratory. A laboratory notebook should be a science aid, Meister says, not a tool to prove one's innocence...