Word: wrenching
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...Kongjian, China's pre-eminent landscape architect, was brought down from Beijing to lend the project some cachet?and, as is often the case, his first move was to throw a wrench into other people's plans. Zhongshan didn't need more flowers, Yu told the city officials; it didn't need fountains, ornate wrought-iron fences, or hedges shaped like animals. Instead of bulldozing the shipyard, he proposed, they could put it to new use. A gantry crane would make an interesting gate, a crumbling water tower could become the base of a lighted beacon. Instead of grass...
...opportunity. Gov-jocks are somewhat of a thing of the past now that the Government department has put its grade-inflationary past behind it. But the department’s brand new buildings, called CGIS Knafel and CGIS South, have doors so heavy that only those aforementioned jocks can wrench them open. Note to the Gov department: rolling boulders to block the doorway would be easier, and they might fit the facade better.Seven: De-creep Cabot House. What do manual elevators and Quadlings have in common? A tendency to get stuck in less-than-ideal places. Combine...
Steve Y. Lee: A six-inch wrench...
...enabling technology. Still, so long as a product had certain features which meant that the company running the service never directly contributed to the creation of illegal copies (like a KaZaA or Grokster), it could rest reasonably well-assured it would not be forced to shut down. The wrench that the Court threw into the works in the Grokster case was to say that a simple doctrine of “substantial noninfringing use” was not sufficient. If, as the music industry argued, a peer-to-peer network was encouraging (or, in the language of the decision...
...Sung Tongs” channeled a chilled, sometimes urgent songcraft (think the Beach Boys on acid) with just Avey Tare and Panda Bear appearing, only half of the group. It was only a matter of time before Geologist and Deakin would join their zoomates and throw a monkey wrench into the band’s musical progression...