Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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GEORGE BUSH IS A MAN OF CAUtion, but not infinitely so. Saddam Hussein sees violence as a useful tool. The two were destined to fight again. With one eye on the history books and another on the sandglass marking the final hours of his presidency, Bush seemed determined to show Saddam Hussein one last time that he was not to be trifled with. Saddam, fully relishing the irony that his own reign would outlast that of his chief nemesis, could not resist tweaking Bush. This time Bush had no patience for the game and ordered a bombing raid that...
...artistic vigor yet unflagging box-office success. The profusion of wigs, frock coats and fake British accents typically has little to do with the rest of these companies' productions or the core creative reasons they exist. The show serves only as a cash cow and, in extreme cases, a tool for extortion: at some theaters, the right to buy seats is granted only to season subscribers...
...theory of quantum electrodynamics with Julian Schwinger and Shin'ichiro Tomonaga, Feynman had an approach that was typically bizarre. Instead of using conventional calculations, he invented "Feynman diagrams," arrows and squiggles that mapped the comings and goings of particles so effectively that they are now a standard tool of physicists...
...robot played a key role in a total-hip replacement, one of 500,000 such operations performed each year. The trick in these procedures is to cut a snug hole into which the artificial hip snaps. The standard method is to jam a tool into the thighbone with a hand-held mallet. Robodoc, using the high-speed drill at the end of its mechanical arm, can ream a cavity that is 20 times as precise...
...could have scared folks by foregrounding Malcolm's seductive racism. But he takes the safe route, viewing his subject less as a flamethrower of incendiary rhetoric than as a victim. Until his late break with the Black Muslims, Malcolm is mostly a tool: of white racists, black gangsters, jail- cell preachers and the Hon. Elijah Muhammad. Malcolm's uniqueness is lost, his personality blurred. He begins as Little and ends as X: still the unknown...