Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Daniel C. Levi '99-'00, of Deerfield, III., the son of a rabbi, insists he is still Jewish, saying he first learned about Buddhism through books. Separating Buddhist practice from the spiritual experience of being Buddhist, Levi says meditation can be a good "psychological tool" for dealing with the stresses of daily life...
While acknowledging that "like-race" similes have caused friction in both racially and sexually identified groups, Halley concluded that such similes can in fact be a helpful political and legal tool...
Time is not our enemy. It is a tool to set us straight, to give us a frame for our lives, to place ourselves on common footing with everyone else. The next time we look at a clock, we should remember that it isn't guard in our personal prison--it's friendly face telling us that yes, there is a standard, and no, we are not alone. As you readjust to Daylight Savings Time, remember: You're the one telling time. Don't ever let time tell...
Electricity has long been a favorite tool of torturers. In many instances pain is still delivered the old-fashioned way, from cattle prods or wires connected to a car battery. But now human-rights workers are running across more cases in which high-tech devices based on American technology are used. Over the past decade, more than 100 companies have sprung up around the world selling small, handheld shock weapons, costing $200 or less, designed for police use. Tens of thousands of cheaper devices, many advertised as giving blasts of 50,000 volts or more, have also been sold directly...
...impossible to tell if Hughes was joking when she said theater is "a tool of social change," and straddled a chair to show how she passionately made out with her mother as a teenager...