Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Want a job? tool-and-die companies in Toledo, Ohio, are so strapped for skilled help that they're recruiting in Russia, where good workers are shivering and unemployed. Or think about Silicon Valley, where two jobs await every qualified applicant and an astonishing 18,000 technical and managerial slots remain unfilled. If you always wanted to be in show business, here's your big chance: booming Disney World and Universal Studios in Orlando, Florida, will together add more than 30,000 jobs, from top management to ticket takers, over the next three years. "I've got opportunity everywhere," says...
MOVIES . . . METRO: "Eddie Murphy's new 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," says TIME's Richard Corliss. "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 full of passengers be too timid to apprehend the lone bad guy while he's busy wrestling with the hero?" Murphy...
...revisit his earlier Boston work on the first stages of infection. By hanging out in hospital emergency rooms and talking to colleagues, he and his team at UCLA identified four young homosexual men suffering from the flu-like symptoms of a primary HIV infection. Ho used a newly available tool of genetic engineering--the PCR test used most famously in the O.J. Simpson trial--to measure the amount of virus in the blood. Once again, he was astonished...
...comes down to the AIDS quilt, that collection of nearly 50,000 squares of fabric devoted to the dead. Gays have always been divided on this display. While some find the quilt a touching memorial and a useful political tool, others consider it a cemetery designed by the Ladies' Home Journal. I joined the landmark gay march on Washington in 1993, as a snob who had tended to avoid such gung-ho events, wary of all that coerced hugging. But that year everyone went. Too many people had died, and solidarity was no longer merely a buzzword. The quilt...
...reached any important milestone," he said. "I hold the view that tenure is just a tool you can use. It allows you the freedom not to worry about what other people think about your work...