Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...powered lasers to study ozone- destroying gases and films of sparkling diamonds. In Hong Kong engineers are fabricating computer chips in clean rooms that rival the very best facilities at U.S. universities. In Pohang, South Korea, scientists will soon start probing the structure of materials with a $180 million tool known as a synchrotron light source -- one of only half a dozen such machines in the world...
...reliable electronic card catalog has been beefed up over the past few months. Notably, the improvements have occurred not by adding more local functionality but rather by addition of gateways to outside databases. In short, HOLLIS is metamorphosing from a card catalog to a comprehensive electronic research tool...
HOLLIS Plus also includes gateways to other institutional systems such as the Library of Congress gopher and ORBIS, the library tool used by students at a curtain college where football team we will destroy this coming weekend. (What kind of name is ORBIS, anyway...
...Harvard family will lose many talented individuals if it forces, with a crude tool of economic incentive, a choice between our commitment to our families or health, and our commitment to this University," the letter says...
...that IQ plays a role as a kind of capacity to learn, but it's not a measure of actual learning," said Ford Professor of Social Sciences Emeritus Daniel Bell, who argued against some of Herrnstein's earlier work in a 1976 book. "To use it as a generalized tool, like a measuring rod or stick, would be wrong...