Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stars. Ordinarily, it would have cost some $150,000 for the telescope alone. Before long, Bruce Weaver, 28, was able to talk Princeton University into providing-on "indefinite loan"-a 36-in. mirror for the reflecting telescope. An astronomer at Lick Observatory near San Jose volunteered to design the instrument free of charge, and a Los Angeles metal fabricator has agreed to build it at cost-about $20,000. In all, well-wishers have donated more than $100,000 in free equipment, including two computers, one of which will control the telescope. The biggest gift came two weeks...
...decision not to take any step to prevent the coup. I'm just putting this in the terms of what he gave--I also suspect strongly that we knew every aspect of the coup, were fully in on it, and were running it, basically. I believe Colby was an instrument, was involved in the machinery that killed a much better man than he or any of his bosses had ever been, in my personal opinion...
...continued propagation of the ideologies of racism and individualism by the American educational system, the presence of black students on college campuses is conditional. Southern (or Harvard, for that matter) provides the black student with a useful skill on the condition that s/he make this skill an instrument of exploitation, that s/he sell it on the market, that s/he use it only within the confines of a system which insures that there will always be a sizeable group of people with unsatisfied needs...
Perhaps more than any other Harvard women's organization, the Women's Center has the potential to act as an instrument for getting women together and for furthering their common interests and common needs. Now it's up to the women here to realize that potential...
...well-equipped military loyal to the Shah would also be helpful in putting down any dissident uprising within Iran. The Emperor freely admits that opposition to the monarchy is not tolerated in Iran, and he has methodically repressed dissent. His principal instrument for maintaining internal security, as he sees it, is SAVAK, Iran's feared secret police organization which routinely scrutinizes even job applications and requests for exit visas. Its name is an acronym from the Farsi words Sazeman Ettelaat va Amniat Keshvar (Security and Information Organization). The Shah himself insists that SAVAK is not large, and some Western...