Tappers

In 1990, Elizabeth Newton earned a Ph.D. in psychology at Stanford by studying a simple game in which she assigned people to one of two roles: "tappers" or "listeners." ❋ Unknown (2007)

On the other hand, who needs Milgrom when you can have "tappers" like Janice L. Gibson, who bills herself as the "EMT Empress." ❋ Orac [email protected] (2010)

Redirecting angry callers is just another demonstration of the cowardice we're all used to from the Republican party – hawks who evade military service, womanizers who proclaim "family values", and toe-tappers who condemn gay marriage. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rubber tappers, cocoa pickers, coal miners and other rural laborers have in some cases seen their incomes more than triple in the past three years, making the workers wealthier than some city residents and putting them on the radar of such multinational consumer-goods makers as Honda Motor Co. and Unilever PLC. ❋ Eric Bellman (2011)

Despite a recently announced amnesty on foreign immigrants in Brazil, benefiting mostly South American neighbors, the Bolivian government has banished about four thousand Brazilian rural workers, rubber tappers and farmers from Pando department, region which has borders with the state of Acre. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Rania Qamhawee, the director of the Dance and Arts department and the deputy president of the Jordanian National Center for Culture and Art, told Reuters that the tappers helped enrich local appreciation for the art form. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Follow a lead of our staff of exceptional keyboard tappers, as well as dare to share! ❋ Admin (2009)

September 4th, 2009 12: 55 pm ET good for him. we need more democrats because republicans have far too many bathroom stall foot tappers. ❋ Unknown (2009)

But the thing is, if you could actually get away from all the cacophony of tappers and hummers, it was a pretty solid show. ❋ Unknown (2009)

The Yawanawá were just emerging from a period of debt slavery under Brazilian rubber tappers who forced them to work in exchange for basics like salt and knives. ❋ John Lyons (2011)

Imagine the brain-destroying work of FBI phone tappers listening to the suburban chitchat of Desperate Russian Housewife spies exchanging recipes for tuna casserole, complaining about insensitive husbands, or their kid's sniffles. ❋ Unknown (2010)

She has even moved her family to the Chico Mendes reserve, named after the hero of the rubber tappers, an ecologist who was gunned down in 1998 (this is dangerous work). ❋ Unknown (2010)

Traveling tappers climb coconut trees, tap the fruit's blossom and decant the sap into a bottle. ❋ Unknown (2010)

A century later, Franciscan missionaries set up a base on Munduruku land, and more contact was made during the rubber boom of the late nineteenth century when rubber tappers penetrated the region. ❋ Alex Bellos (2010)