Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...ARISTIDE: The masses have their own little tool their own little secret, their own wisdom. When they were talking about 15 years inside the court, according to the law...outside the people began hitting their Pere Lebrun on the pavement, because the people's ire was swelling up. That's how the law became a sentence for life...Did the people give Pere Lebrun that...
...prosecutor who became a national hero in Italy for his campaign against bribe-taking politicians, asked to be reassigned in a protest against a decree issued by Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's right-wing government. The decree would eliminate the prosecutors' ability to detain corruption suspects, a powerful tool used against thousands of prominent citizens...
Zametkin's study was hailed as the long-awaited proof of the biological basis of ADD, though Zametkin himself is quite cautious. A newer study used another tool -- magnetic resonance imaging -- to compare the brains of 18 ADHD boys with those of other children and found several "very subtle" but "striking" anatomical differences, says co-author Judith Rapoport, chief of the child psychiatry branch at NIMH. Says Zametkin: "I'm absolutely convinced that this disorder has a biological basis, but just what it is we cannot...
Even so, ardent supporters of Clinton's original plan, both in the White House and on the Hill, view the rump-group proposal as little more than a convenient, temporary tool for getting a proposal past the Finance Committee. Once that happens, they expect Mitchell to fashion a bill for consideration by the full Senate drawn largely from the Labor Committee proposal. That plan retains Clinton's provision requiring companies to pay for 80% of their workers' insurance premiums, an idea that small-business lobbyists have all but killed...
...avoidance of it, seems to be a theme which ties "White" with "Blue." Julie in "Blue" was sentenced by Fate to solitude. She claimed it as independence. In "While," Karol reclaims the power he has lost with the end of his marriage and uses his sex as a bargaining tool. Again, this is a liberation of sorts from the traditional role which assigns women the role of using sex for power. Here the usual is reversed and a new story unfolds. Karol cannot maintain his marriage because of his impotence. He is not allowed to stay with...