Word: tweaks
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Quality Control Manager Jaime Schier instructed Eisele on ingredient selection and brewing methods.“I spent several days talking to him about what sort of things to look for, how different brewing techniques would influence the final character of the beer, [and] ways you could tweak things to make the beer taste one way or another,” Shier says.Impressed by Eisele’s enthusiasm and attention to detail, Shier notes Eisele was never without notebook in-hand.“When I worked with him, he whipped it out at least 20 times to scribble...
...hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. Feel-good investor sentiment surrounding the August Games, the thinking went, would prop up overvalued stocks, allowing time for revenues of booming Chinese companies to grow into their inflated share prices. When markets were peaking last fall, some investors predicted that the government would tweak the economy to keep it roaring during the Olympics year, and that if all else failed, China's regulators would find ways to prop up a plummeting stock market, so that disgruntled Chinese would not spoil the festive sporting atmosphere by complaining about the loss of their life savings...
Although the Gen Ed committee approved two existing Core courses, the instructors said they planned to tweak them slightly. Shepsle, for instance, said that although his Social Analysis class, “Talking About Politics,” currently does not assign problem sets, he said he is considering incorporating them next year...
...most successful season in the five-year history of the program.Still, the best team in the country has a plan.“Cornell came in having clearly studied us closely on film,” Cahow said. “So we’re trying to tweak the things that we do. We have to be able to make any kind of play on the ice.”Harvard’s players also have plenty of respect for Clarkson’s defensive abilities. “They have good goaltending, so we want...
...cult fame among baseball fans as the New York Mets' self-appointed commentator. From 1964 to 1981, the "Sign Man of Shea Stadium"--whom the Mets flew to the 1973 World Series for good luck--sat in the stands and held up hundreds of prepared block-lettered placards to tweak (JOSE CAN YOU SEE? when Jose Cardenal struck out) or praise (IT'S ALIVE! when a weak player got a hit). "I called them the way I saw them," he said...