Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...voted to repeal the ban on assault weapons, the top item on the National Rifle Association's wish list, although everyone knew Clinton would veto the measure. Amid the posturing, pandering and juggling of symbols, one sound bite rang true. Each party accused the other of being a tool of the special interests. It was hard to disagree...
There are two ways to make a living when you're a top safecracker. JEFF SITAR has chosen the less remunerative one. Sitar, who has been named the world's best safecracker four years out of the past five by tool supplier Lockmaster, has been called on to open everything from bank vaults with humans inside to the safes of dead relatives. As good as he is with his fingers, however, Sitar's at a bit of a loss when it comes to explaining his craft. "It's a combination of listening, looking and mathematics," he says. "You're looking...
...Internet as a potentially inspiring instrument, a way to get everyone involved in the political process--but not with speech restrictions. I think the press could serve its function best as an analytical tool and shed light on the issues that fly by, to provide depth and context to the events occuring. But, as of now, Americans are not up for that kind of examination. In our anti-intellectual climate, thoroughness is not what gives ratings a boost, and so the press is forced into narrow-minded showmanship...
...survey tool and therefore does not cover all aspects of what makes a medical school [deserve the name] Harvard Medical School--such as criteria for acceptance and the quality of our students," McGinity said...
...game of musical chairs) and similar horrors. One strip introduced the Can-o-Matic, "a rest-room stall that randomly fires people by slapping a pink slip on their backs and catapulting them out of the building." In another, Dilbert's boss uses humor as a management tool. "Knock, knock," he says. "Who's there?" asks a worker. "Not you anymore...