Word: tooled
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...TIME selected me (all of us) this year. I just took a job at Google so that I could participate in the user-powered revolution, and I can't believe how lucky I am to be alive at this time in history. Your story said Web 2.0 is "a tool for bringing together the small contributions of millions of people and making them matter" and about people "helping one another for nothing." I just want to emphasize this point. People will help one another if they believe it matters. People will vote, for crying out loud, if they think...
...Ethical Tool A burglar's Leatherman in a surgeon's pocket raises many complicated questions
...first acts as President was some spiritual housecleaning. Among the more ingeniously cynical inventions of the Nixon Administration was the much publicized White House Church Service, which in addition to providing genuine fellowship for those so inclined, was a prime tool for image building, fund raising, arm twisting and dealmaking for the President's men. Two days after Ford was sworn in, his wife Betty Ford would write in her diary, a little pointedly, "There aren't going to be any more private services in the East Room for a select few." During his first Sunday as President Ford...
...Vinci Code was entertaining, but this film is a personal tool for people who want to change their lives," says Rainone. "It's a gift to the world, to help humanity." Or, as another empowerment teacher, Madonna, sang in her own 1994 hit Secret:"Happiness lies in your own hand...
...music is not our only tool. Forty voices shouting in unison is a formidable force, one even greater when joined with the other student fans. If there has not been a pause in the action recently, we start up a chorus of “Let’s go Harvard!” or “Here we go Harvard!” as appropriate. Heckling the other team is also undertaken frequently with taunts and the infamous “sieve” cheer accompanied by cowbell. It’s always rewarding to see our team...