Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...biblical preaching that cult members attended twice a day, Koresh underlined his authority by impressing upon them that he alone understood the Scriptures. He changed his interpretations at will, while his unsteady flock struggled to keep up. In a tactic common to cult leaders, Koresh made food a tool for ensuring obedience. The compound diet was often insufficient, varying according to the leader's whim. Sometimes dinner was stew or chicken; at other times it might be nothing but popcorn. On their infrequent trips to Waco, cultists could be seen wolfing down packaged cheese in convenience stores. Household and dietary...
...President, unable to break the ongoing Republican filibuster against his package, appears ready to cut a deal with minority leader Bob Dole to reduce the size of the proposed stimulus. But at week's end they were still haggling, and the bad retail-sales news was a useful tool for the Democrats to nudge public opinion in their direction...
NAFTA will give the Mexican president the leverage he needs to set fundamental change in motion. Its potential for promoting economic stability, and the prospect of growth can enable these policy objectives to be met. An essential tool is the implementation of the multi-billion dollar Solidarity plan, an important social reform program aimed at eradicating widespread poverty and corruption...
...inside his cage, Kanzi had the makings of a tool that could solve the riddle: some pieces of flint he had selected during an excursion to the countryside. No sweat! By slamming the flints against the concrete floor, the chimp created knifelike chips, which he used to cut the cord and free the key. He then used the key to open the other box and grab the treat...
Still, toolmaking does not entirely explain why apes, humans and other animals developed big brains. Gorillas, orangutans and bonobos are roughly the intellectual peers of chimps but rarely resort to tool use. Nor does the need to build tools fully account for the enormous expansion of human brainpower during the past million years. As recently as 100,000 B.C., Homo sapiens were using only the crudest tools, even though their brains had already reached the present size -- large enough to put men on the moon, probe the basis of matter and tinker with the genetic code. Because big brains need...