Word: tweak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Although Harvard Coach Katey Stone had to tweak her top forward line in the offseason, it continues to score at will. The first line combined for 20 points in the first two games that the Crimson has played without A.J. Mleczko '99, who won the 1998-99 Kazmaier Award as national player of the year...
...There are still things that we need to tweak and change," she said...
...real show-stealer was the Kennedys (Pete Kennedy and his wife Maura Boudreau), who had the final performance on the Showcase Stage. So Pete had bad hair--still, when he lifted up his old guitar to thump, tweak and coax out crowd-rousing guitar solos that flew from Spanish-style romances to jazzy Broadway show tunes, you forgot all about it. The captivating backgrounds of their songs were impressive as well: they wove classics like Faure's "Pavane" and Bach's Jesu, "Joy of Man's Desiring" into songs inspired by remote sources such as Greek myth...
This time around, however, fewer students are talking about the change, much less getting miffed--even though the new policy is more a tweak than an overhaul...
...engineered plants have ever done anyone any harm. Nonetheless, the European Union has blocked the importation of some GM crops, and since 1997 has required that foods that contain engineered DNA be labeled as such. Plenty of trade watchers in Washington see the European actions as one more tweak from an increasingly powerful E.U. no longer intimidated by U.S. economic might. While that may be, the fact remains that the U.S. Congress may address a labeling bill of its own this fall, and some private groups are threatening lawsuits to force the issue. Even without legal action, public opinion...