Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Health Program (its barbaric acronym: SECH) had distributed some 6,000 copies in dormitories. What outraged conservative students and alumni was not the pamphlet's routine discussion of anatomy, conception, contraceptives and abortion but its fiery introduction. The opening pages denounced the population-control movement as an instrument of U.S. imperialism in the Third World. The introduction also blamed urban ills on "America's white ruling class" and pollution on consumers. "We are the villains," it said, "because we drive to work in the only transportation system made available by G.M., Ford and Chrysler." The introduction suggested that...
...researcher is quali fied only to serve hamburgers. The commercial use of the polygraph is the only thing that is keeping many small and marginal businesses afloat. This machine is no sinister monster designed to deny people the right to earn an honest living. It is rather a scientific instrument that can guarantee the basic honesty of persons placed in positions of trust...
...more people are divorced from self-initiated and self-controlled material production, the less they understand the relation between work as an expression and fulfillment of their real needs and the needs themselves. Work begins to appear as merely an instrument towards artificial ends, like money, and the products of work take on a character hostile to the worker...
Bohdan Hawrylyshyn, Ukranian-born director of Geneva's respected Center of Industrial Studies and a convinced European, argues that the flow toward unification is "irreversible." The Common Market may turn out not to be the main instrument of unity, he concedes. Other concerns, particularly the environment, will have a role in forcing the Europeans to make common cause. Eventually, Hawrylyshyn predicts, Western Europe might evolve into "a loose federation along, let's say, the Swiss pattern." NATO will fade; Eastern Europe and the West "will draw closer together, but remain on different wave lengths...
...This cash sum transferred to the Harvard Black Rock Forest Fund on the University books, to be used for "any forestry purpose" in accordance with the instrument of gift. This phrase is open to very wide interpretation, quite properly, in accordance with my father's interests in Harvard, and in science, as mentioned above...