Word: tooled
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...into Hauser’s lab research class, Psychology 1152, which is limited to 12 spaces usually reserved for psychology concentrators. She spends her time in the lab testing how well Pinker, Newport, Hrdy and Wrangham—four tamarins named after scientists—can work with tools. She conducts means-means-end experiments to determine whether the tamarins can realize that by using one tool, they can move another tool which will bring them a sugar-coated marshmallow...
Applied systematically, rape can be devastating tool of war, said researcher Mia Bloom yesterday during a speech at the Kennedy School of Government...
...said rape was more complex than simple exploitation of “wartime spoils,” saying that the systematic use of rape is an “efficient” war tool...
...happens when they refuse to be held? You're going to have Kent State all over again." The alternative, though, may be just as grim. In Maine, warns deputy attorney general Linda Pistner, there's nothing to stop someone with smallpox from walking out of the hospital. "Without this tool," she asks, "how else can we minimize the loss of life...
...They contend that the distinction between a coercive and a non-coercive action is ambiguous and ultimately meaningless. While it is encouraging to see that they haven’t forgotten the issue altogether, their arguments in defense of “coercion” as the most effective tool in the worker’s arsenal reveal that their understanding of the question is woefully inadequate...