Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...understand that you used the Rodney King video as a teaching tool. How did you use it, and what were you hoping to accomplish...
...seem like a modest revision, but that doesn't mean it was easy to produce. Originally scheduled for release a year ago as an educational tool, it was held up when the meat and dairy industries argued that it bad-mouthed their products. Developing the pyramid had already cost about $100,000, and it took another year and $855,000 of research to make sure consumers understood that foods shouldn't be seen as good or evil. And that in turn angered nutritionists, who thought the extra time and money were politically motivated waste...
...addition, Hill, a law professor at the University of Oklahoma, said that powerful members of society use sexual harassment as a tool to exclude the less powerful...
GATES SKEWERS THE LEFT as well, although here we can find more to complain about. Much of his critique centers around carving out a role for the evaluation of texts by literary critics like himself--as opposed to trashing all evaluation as a tool of capitalist, white male oppression...
...hour, and I wasn't getting as much thinking done as I had hoped. I tried to make mental notes of the spectators, or of the houses and the landscape, but it wasn't much use. I had passed the point where a walk is a useful thinking tool and just wanted to get back to Boston and take a shower. a waited for the mile markers. Thirteen. Fourteen. Fifteen. I stopped at a Star Market and bought an apple and a candy bar for lunch. Sixteen. Seventeen. I passed the spot where I photographed the race two years...