Word: tools
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Though passing percentages for the July, October and January tests have risen, educators and prospective teachers still worried that the MECT is not adequately testing their skills--and that it has become a political tool...
...intruder had set up a "packet sniffer"--a network tool that monitors all the traffic of a local network. This particular "sniffer" had access to only a small section of the Sever Hall building, not the entire Harvard network...
...success Frank Stronach couldn't even have begun to dream about in 1954, when, at age 22, he left his native Austria for Canada with $200 in his pocket and about the same number of English words in his vocabulary. Three years later he managed to start up a tool-and-die shop in a rented garage in downtown Toronto, and in 1960 he signed a contract with General Motors to produce sun-visor brackets for Chevrolets and Pontiacs. Over the following decade, Stronach pulled together a team of mostly German and Austrian tool-and-die workers to make more...
...real issue is how to manage the implications of the globalization process and turn it into a historic opportunity for greater wealth creation and distribution, into a tool for larger integration in the world economic system. That is especially important for regions that so far have been left on the sidelines and are condemned to oblivion and despair--maybe even violent revolt--if they are not given a chance and the means to integrate themselves into the world economy...
...South America, bringing down exotic birds by day and happily sinning away his nights with a succession of willing women. He's not a student of evolution but evolution's happy product, strong and shrewd and lusty. A nature boy. The irony is that this makes him the perfect tool of a scientific expedition whose findings will challenge his very being...