Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Sabrina S. Gee, a second-year student and co-chair of the Asian Student Caucus, said the affirmative action committee could be an effective tool in identifying strong minority candidates...
...grown almost a hundredfold, to more than 30,000, thanks to a network of supercomputer centers established by the National Science Foundation, the national laboratories and various state governments. In a wide variety of fields from astronomy to theoretical physics, computer simulation has replaced laboratory experimentation as a basic tool of scientific research. It is much easier to study the behavior of ionized gases in a computer simulation, for example, than it is to build a full-scale nuclear- fusion reactor. "We've whetted an awful lot of scientific appetites," says Larry Smarr, director of the National Center for Supercomputing...
...ordinary folks, biofeedback can be a useful tool in treating dozens of ailments, from asthma to epilepsy, chronic pain to drug addiction. It is perhaps the single most effective treatment for Raynaud's disease, a condition mainly afflicting women, in which the fingers turn white, cold and painful when they are exposed to cold. A series of biofeedback sessions trains sufferers to improve circulation in their hands. Many insurers now cover biofeedback, and even some old-line hospitals offer the therapy...
...walk." This is true of Marden's paintings, which at first sight seem to consist of nothing but line, moving across the surface in an improvised way full of checks, turnings, erasures -- a maze making itself. The nature of the line is intimately involved with the tool Marden uses, which is in effect the ailanthus twig writ large: a long-handled brush with flitchlike bristles, floppy rather than stiff, whose ramblings convey an air of reflective uncertainty. Not for Marden the forceful calligraphic rush, the electric ink- blackness, of some Zen characters...
...book is not all about destruction--although his dining room has been suffering this stage wall-banging for two years now. ("It becomes invisible after a while," Owen explained in an interview). The Walls Around Us is also about discovery. Owen introduces the reader to every power tool and house building material, from his favorite electric miter saw to roof shingles and shakes, and also to many people--from a hardcore hardware man to the ghosts harbored inside his own house's walls. When Owen was stripping the "crazy wallpaper" from his daughter's bedroom, he discovered ancient tabloids...