Word: tooled
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...carried away with cheap jokes at the President's expense. After all, he's never claimed to be the sharpest tool in the shed, and the Bush-Kim meeting is important not because of what it may reveal about troubles ahead for the U.S. president on the diplomatic stage, but for the fault line it reveals between the hawks and doves in his administration. Bush's response to Kim raised eyebrows all over Washington and beyond because Secretary of State Colin Powell appeared to be leaning in the opposite direction the previous day. Powell had implied that the Bush administration...
...DuPont Pharmaceuticals, hopes to double ETS's overall revenues within five years, to more than $1 billion a year. "The future for testing is in K-12," says Landgraf. "It's the biggest initiative we have." His golden ticket may be ETS's new "e-rater," a nifty tool that can grade essay questions in under a second, using advanced artificial-intelligence technology. ETS claims the scores the e-rater spits out match those given by human graders 97% of the time. That's as accurate as a second human reader...
...fact, Katzman is ecstatic, calling the SAT "a vestige from another era" that "should be discarded at the first possible moment." It's a position he can afford to take, as his company, which is in the process of going public, recently launched homeroom.com a potentially profitable interactive tool meant to help kids prepare for their state exams...
...answer is that there wasn't really any inconsistency between Atkinson's speech and Bush's, even though one man wants to abolish tests and the other wants to institute them, because the underlying idea is the same: to use tests as a tool to encourage students to master a set body of material in school...
Carr said he initially thought he might burn down the compound because of its associations with violence and racism, but decided instead that it could be used as an educational tool...