Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...They are an attractive tool for the inexpensive spreading of death," explains William M. Arkin, the chief military consultant to Human Rights Watch, which issued a report about the danger of duds titled "Ticking Time Bombs." The report states that the actual dud rate, as measured in the Gulf War, was close to a quarter of the bomblets, over four times the official Air Force estimate. Arkin said duds result from a variety of reasons and that their fuse work is often shoddy. He added that the cluster bombs have "Gameboy-like electronics," in an effort to create widescale destruction...
With such limited range, the Radcliffe name might seem like an insignificant asset--or even awkward conversation piece--for most graduates. But some alumnae say it is a crucial tool for establishing relationships with other professional women...
...bonding tool with women...because you are dealing with women of comparable ambition and intellect," Corcoran says. "Radcliffe is uniquely positioned to bring those women together...
Grant applications go through a peer-review process, she adds, and are approved on their merits rather than a researcher's alma mater. And Harvard networking, she says, isn't a powerful tool in the medical research field...
What seems to be a single memory is actually a complex construction. Think of a hammer, and your brain hurriedly retrieves the tool's name, its appearance, its function, its heft and the sound of its clang, each extracted from a different region of the brain. Fail to connect a person's name with his or her face, and you experience the breakdown of that assembly process that many of us begin to experience in our 20s--and that becomes downright worrisome when we reach...