Word: tooled
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...quick to write off such a successful brand. In the 30s, during the Great Depression, there was a shift in consumer culture away from products that were seen as foreign or imported toward more homemade goods. A combination of growing isolationism as a foreign policy tool and the encouragement to “buy American” led to more jobs created for Americans, slightly better prices, and a strengthened American manufacturing industry.Though it’s debatable as to whether or not the United States’ current economic dilemma is as dire...
...sloppiest of drunks. However, my last e-mail remained unsent. If you have to do math at 2:30 in the morning, you're more likely to stop sending e-mails because you give up, not because you actually get the answers wrong. As a purely dissuasive tool, then, Mail Goggles works as advertised. Of course, there's still the text message, the Facebook message and the good old-fashioned drunken phone call. There are plenty of ways to humiliate yourself if you try. And for those determined to reveal their true feelings via e-mail, the company that brought...
...Asian or a nerd, I’d better not be on the math team.’ Kids are self-selecting. For social reasons, they’re not even trying.” A revamp of math’s cultural image may be the most potent tool for boosting our nation’s diminishing math proficiency rates. While many charge that mathematic skill is the purview only of the few and gifted, proficiency is clearly within the range of all students. Those who excel in math are not necessarily those with the greatest raw intelligence...
...Anyone can buy ads by going to the MyAds site and signing up. A relatively easy tool allows you to create a banner ad - you can upload your own image, graphic or corporate logo, and type your message directly into it. MySpace then allows you to "HyperTarget" (MySpace's term) your ad at a market based on the many ways the social network's 76 million active users define themselves. Age, gender, zip code, hobbies, musical preference, even the kinds of video games people like are among the data MySpace captures from users and shares with advertisers. Like Google, rates...
...Elsevier’s managing director of journal publishing, Martin Tanke, said that Elsevier also launched PERK, a publishing ethics toolkit for journal editors, and a reference tool to strengthen the peer review process...