Word: instrument
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...really?" I say, edging towards the nearest blunt instrument, "I hadn't heard that...
Last year at the forum, which was organized by a conservative law school group, Bator said CLS, a Marxist approach to legal studies which calls law an instrument of social oppression, has undermined the law school...
Ultimately, the dentist's principal instrument of agony, the drill, may be used less often because of a substance called Caridex 100, developed at Tufts University in Medford, Mass. Caridex, which is gradually being introduced around the country, is an amino-acid solution that dissolves tooth decay, leaving behind a clean, sturdy area that can be filled with little or no drilling. However, the method is not suitable for all cavities...
...more than play video games. At the booth of a company called Intellicorp, engineers from Ford Aerospace were showing off a program for troubleshooting balky satellites. At the Apollo Computer display, a firm called Visual Intelligence had a system to help nuclear-plant operators quickly interpret the kind of instrument readings that confused technicians at Three Mile Island. On a Digital Equipment computer, newspaper specialists from Composition Systems exhibited a program that lets editors accommodate late- breaking news by reducing from hours to minutes the time it takes to lay out and print a new edition...
...MANY ARTISTS, the photograph is not merely an instrument to capture an instant of life which they have uncovered. The image on film can be as abstract as a stray brush stroke on canvas. Many of the photographers have hidden their pictures, unfocused or brushed over them, to obscure the subject and highlight the shapes. The photographs have become, for better or worse...