Word: tricking
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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MEDICINE: The AIDS Virus' Other Trick...
...face it," Davis said. "They're going to try every trick in the book to keep this from going to a vote. They're not going to do this voluntarily...
...neatest trick is the company's ability to keep labor costs low in one of the world's most high-priced countries -- proving that moving the factory to cheap markets abroad is not always the best cost-saving solution. Thanks to an extremely high degree of automation, SMH keeps direct labor charges under 10% of total manufacturing expenses, in contrast to about 30% for most watchmaking operations...
Rehabilitation can work. Everyone changes in time. The trick is to influence the direction that change takes. The problem with prisons is that they don't do more to rehabilitate those confined in them. The convict who enters prison illiterate will probably leave the same way. Most convicts want to be better than they are, but education is not a priority. This prison houses 4,600 men and offers academic training to 240, vocational training to a like number. Perhaps it doesn't matter. About 90% of the men here may never leave this prison alive...
...felt, he was extremely professional about it." When asked about her feelings after the class ended, Theta says that when she ran into him again she "couldn't understand why I had such a crush on him. Maybe it was the power thing." Or maybe it was a psychological trick she played on herself in order to do better in the class. After all, she notes, "after doing all that work, I got the best grade I have gotten in math at Harvard...