Word: tooled
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...administration's response to these charges generally has something to do with the Ad Board's role as an educational tool. According to this argument, the Board is not a court of law; its mission is to help and protect students. This counterclaim has a degree of merit. But there is a fundamental tension between the obligation of the College to protect students and the right of students to protect themselves...
...evidence of Metro, maybe The Nutty Professor was less a trend than a fluke. This cop thriller bears a surface similarity to the early Eddie hits 48 HRS. and Beverly Hills Cop, but it's lame and lazy, inefficient even as the sort of action machine Hollywood can tool up in its sleep. The mandatory car chase is woefully generic; it disregards the laws of physics without raising more than vagrant musings in the viewer. Why, for example, would a cable-car-ful of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with...
...city of Kragujevac, one of 14 cities won by opposition candidates, hundreds of police have blocked the transition by barricading themselves inside the city's TV station. By controlling the station, which the new mayor vows to liberate, Milosevic is effectively denying the opposition its most powerful tool...
Poor Mel Harbaugh. The executive vice president of Toledo Molding & Die, which makes machine tools and automotive parts, says his company spent a full year finding a qualified tool-and-die repair worker for one of its seven plants. But now, with another tool-and-die specialist injured, the company must truck parts between plants for repair...
...Once a Rust Bucket epicenter, the metropolitan area (pop. 770,000) has become a hub for auto-part exports to Canada and Mexico since the North American Free Trade Agreement took effect in 1994. Norton Manufacturing, a crankcase maker in nearby Fostoria, could hire 30 electricians, machine repairers and tool-and-die workers--if it could find them...