Word: tooled
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Initial reaction in France has been muted ahead of the Monday's Bastille Day holiday, though activist group Ni Putes Ni Soumises (Neither Whores Nor Submissive) that champions secular and feminist causes said it was "relieved" by the ruling. "The Republic can in no manner validate this kind of tool of oppression and submission of women," a communique by the group said-referring to what it has called the "green fascism" of misogyny practiced in many of France's blighted suburban housing projects under the cover of Islamic fundamentalism or Arab cultural machismo...
...Since then, candidates have used early Veep announcements as a tool to shape their images and grab the spotlight from the incumbent. These are tall orders in the era of public financing of presidential campaigns, because by summer, campaigns traditionally run out of money for the primaries and haven't yet received general election funds. The period before the conventions is when they need free media the most...
...sanctimony and self-regard. It's ecotistical. It's compostentatious. Grenier and company mean it to be aspirational--it's cool to be green!--but the effect is exactly the opposite. Hey, I compost and recycle too, I think as I watch. Do I look like that big a tool...
...risk of sounding like some Ivy League tool who believes he’s discovered the fundamental unity of mankind and relays his epiphany to the world through wildly uninformed observations taken down after just three weeks in a country, I think there is something reassuring in the idea that this expanding global community that seems to threaten the individuality of unique and vibrant societies has actually been around all along, and what is happening now is just the natural progression of things. At least, that is what I tell myself as Ronald McDonald watches me wash down my bulgogi...
...previous year. Perhaps the increase could be explained by consumer price sensitivity. In the same University of Michigan Consumer Index report, consumers expect an inflation rate of 5.6% over the next 12 months. Here's a new hypothesis: when economic times get tough, online shopping sites become an important tool to help consumers find the best price on potential purchases...