Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Frank] is the Cinderella of the squash courts," Lifford says. "He uses his speed more as an offensive tool now. He can run down practically anything. Well, everythng except for my three-walls...
...Japan. The $6 million price tag includes an agreement to lease the facilities to the college for 30 years and to make the firm's president a regent of the school. The transaction benefits both parties: Amvic's direct link with the U.S. college gives it a valuable marketing tool back home, and Warner Pacific is relieved of its crippling debt...
...dictionary seems to lack a viable purpose. The weighty volume is useless as a reference tool. You need to look up a term? Use Webster's. A geographical location? Try an atlas. An expression? Bartlett's is better...
Since this dictionary is an inefficient reference tool, I would suggest reading it straight through--especially if you enjoy reading the phone book but wish it could be a bit more repetitive. Wading through the capitalized cross-references is an exercise in prolonged frustration. Here's a typical entry...
...date list of bank holidays in Kuala Lumpur. Even worse, I am forced to rise from my swivel chair and wander down the hall each time I need the name of the concierge at the Hotel George V in Paris. In contrast, about the only power tool my Daily Planner offers is a page of metric equivalents. Unfortunately, the last time I needed a metric crib sheet, I was standing on a bathroom scale in Italy after a huge dinner, trying to convince myself that pounds and kilograms are almost equal...