Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...called the resource center "a consumer tool" and pointed out it was a voluntary program...
...surface, the strike was spurred by GM's decision to close down a tool-and-die shop -- but both sides know that larger issues are at stake. What + the corporation insists is a drive to banish outmoded practices that have made its factories the least efficient in the auto industry is perceived by the union as an effort to eliminate jobs. Dave Kimmel, president of UAW Local 1714, said his members received support from workers at distant plants whose weekly incomes are dropping from $700 to $200 a week. "Job security is important to everybody," he said. But the strike...
Neurologists and psychologists learned long ago that brain injuries can be a powerful tool for investigating how human thought and memory are organized. A case study by two Johns Hopkins researchers, reported in Nature, is but the latest example. A 70-year-old retired librarian who suffered such an injury developed a remarkable symptom: she lost the ability to name animals, though % she could still name other living things, such as plants, and inanimate objects. Nor could she assign physical attributes to animals -- she could not, for example, answer the question "What color is an elephant?" Yet she could answer...
...function of this book is not that of a guide to good usage or a & dictionary, though it is a necessary complement to both. Despite its peculiar shortcomings, it remains a sterling reference tool and deserves a bravo!, bravissimo!, well done!, ole! (Sp), bene! (Ital), hear, hear!, aha!; hurrah!; good!, fine!, excellent!, whizzo! (Brit), great!, beautiful!, swell!, good for you!, good enough!, not bad!, now you're talking!; way to go, attaboy!, attababy!, attagirl!, attagal!, good boy!, good girl!; that's the idea!, that's the ticket!; encore!, bis!, take a bow!, three cheers!, one cheer more!, congratulations...
...sort of deputy President, managing the campaign, then leading a sweeping domestic agenda during a second Bush term. But the truth is that Baker is only making an emergency house call as Mr. Fix-It. If Bush wins re-election, Baker has told friends that he will help tool up a domestic strategy and hire the right folks to run it. then he'll scoot right back to State. Says an aide: "A big part of it is putting the right crew in place, which we definitely don't have right...