Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...With the recent recession hitting their thinly capitalized black advertisers especially hard, even the most successful black publishers find themselves steering more conservative courses than they did in the protest years. Sums up a black Atlanta journalist: "Once a sword for freedom, the black press is now a flaccid instrument...
...TIME, "experience teaches us that it is very hard to really change anything unless you have a say in the executive. Contrary to what is commonly thought abroad, the Parliament here works fairly well. What does not work is the Executive Branch, which is of course the major operational instrument of any state. So that is the level at which the real changes will have to be made...
Most students taking elementary music lessons are freshmen who want to continue their instruction while they are at Harvard, and seniors who find they have taken enough graded courses to graduate and want to learn to play an instrument, Forbes said...
...reasons for the unacceptability of ROTC, in its function as a training ground for the United States military, should be immediately apparent. Since World War II, the United States military has been the primary instrument of an interventionist foreign policy designed to suppress the initiatives of third world countries towards economic and political self-determination. The full implications of this policy were seen in the fifteen years of war in Southeast Asia where the armed forces conducted a campaign of terror and murder against the Indochinese people. The aggression of the Marines against Cambodia in the Mayaguez incident suggests that...
Versailles; the Volstead Act, which established Prohibition in 1919; Franklin D. Roosevelt's first inaugural address, heralding the New Deal in 1933; the Japanese surrender instrument of 1945; the Marshall Plan...