Word: tooled
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...What is being done to defend us against that fate? Far too little. Work on the one tool that can make the biggest difference in the severity of a pandemic-an effective vaccine-has been underfunded. Thanks to a new technique called reverse genetics, researchers were able to create a vaccine strain from the H5N1 virus in record time-yet the candidate vaccine is just now entering clinical trials, because drug companies have been loathe to invest in a vaccine that may never be used, and governments have been reluctant to fully fund the work. The vaccine...
...asset and certainly more valuable alive than dead. "At some point, someone told us that Kim Il Sung said that one American was worth 100 Koreans," says Jenkins. "After that, I didn't think they would kill us without a good reason." His first experience as a propaganda tool occurred soon after he was captured, when he and his fellow deserters were profiled in a cover story in Fortune's Favorites, a state-run publication. And in 1984 he was cast in the North Korean film Nameless Heroes, playing the part of an evil U.S. imperialist. Jenkins also became convinced...
...they could fight fraud." News of Otpor's interest in the Ukraine vote - and the fact that the group received funding from the U.S. government as well as dozens of other private and non-American donors - drew alarmed speculation on Russian state TV that the group is an American tool agitating for regime change "on the doorstep of Russia...
...production attempts the total modernization of the ancient text. It is immediately and unmistakably avant-garde, utilizing nearly every tool available to theater to explore the legend of Medea. The play is intricately choreographed, in many places more akin to modern ballet than to anything Euripides could have imagined...
...focus this weekend is about our team executing our game plan and playing to our ability,” Stone said. “We have all the tools in the tool box and we just have to make sure that they are sharp on game...