Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...emphysema, Pierce received a double-lung transplant in 1993. After intense rehabilitation, she now competes in bicycling events around the world. Last year she started Team Alpha 1, whose members participate in American Lung Association rides across the country to raise awareness of the disease. "This is a tool for patients to live as full a life as they can," Pierce says. "The body can work again...
...charge of the President's nascent re-election effort. Finally, in early February, Braynin was instructed to "find some Americans" but to proceed discreetly. "Secrecy was paramount," says Braynin. "Everyone realized that if the Communists knew about this before the election, they would attack Yeltsin as an American tool. We badly needed the team, but having them was a big risk...
...lowest level, enforcing a moment of silence is good for discipline. Children should be taught how to close their mouths or stay in one place when told to do so. But such a disciplinary tool only works if it is taken seriously and unequivocally executed universally: complete silence, for a complete minute. Students would not even be allowed to clean their guns or sharpen their knives until 60 seconds have elapsed. At that point, usual classes and schoolyard violence would be allowed to resume...
DIED. MICHEL TER-POGOSSIAN, 71, scientist who led the team that made the pet scanner into a practical diagnostic tool; of a heart attack; in Paris...
...cannot justify unwarranted censorship of free speech." Yet after the court ruling last week, the President issued a statement reaffirming his conviction that "our Constitution allows us to help parents by enforcing this Act" and promising "to do everything I can in my Administration to give families every available tool to protect their children...