Word: tweaks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...active supporter of women because my portfolio is on a different scope, but I've worked as much as I could, more in a quiet diplomacy style because I've been in inner circles in the institutions I've been working with, and I've had the oporunity to tweak the system at the right time, to get the point across...
...business since 1983, Moore and probably many Harvard students felt a tweak of nostalgia as the owners rooted the last of the dusty, frequently yellowing books from storeroom corners en route to the new store. The move took nearly a year to complete...
...typecast as an active supporter ofwomen because my portfolio is on a differentscope, but I've worked as much as I could more ina quiet diplomacy style because I've been in innercircles in the institutions I've been working withand I've had the opportunity to tweak the systemat the right time, to get the point across. Ifound that to be a very effective strategy...
...group is more victimized by street thugs than the law-abiding citizens of the ghetto. Doubtless the G.O.P. would have exploited Dukakis' furlough policy if Horton were white. Yet the glee with which Bush's campaign team leaped upon the Horton affair belies its denials that it intended to tweak white prejudices. In Horton, Bush's staff found a potent symbolic twofer: a means by which to appeal to the legitimate issue of crime while simultaneously stirring racial fears...
...Hughes, it is necessary to reproduce his fancy only once in reality to achieve fulfillment. Indeed, after seeing Francis Coppola's marvelous Tucker, one believes that if the inventor had been forced to replicate his car endlessly on a production line, promote it and warrant it and tweak it around to create a little novelty each new model year, Tucker might have ended up running on empty, one of those corporate windbags booming the virtues of an individualism he has long since mislaid...