Word: instrument
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...that point, the facts are not with Reagan. His exact quote, from a press conference on May 13, 1982, referred to missiles carried by submarines and bombers as follows: "You are dealing there with a conventional type of weapon or instrument, and those instruments can be intercepted. They can be recalled if there has been a miscalculation...
Something that Winston Churchill once said of democracy applies to that curious instrument of democracy, the presidential campaign debate: "In this world of sin and woe," it is the worst of all possible systems, except for any alternative that has yet been tried. Sunday night Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale provided occasional valuable indications about how they would handle the vital foreign policy and defense issues that the nation will face in the next four years, but they did so only sporadically and, it sometimes seemed, unintentionally. The debate, like the entire campaign, encouraged generalizations, evasions, safe (as opposed...
...disconnected from his own passions, to be neutralized by an internal maze of deflectors and scruples. He displayed a genius for undoing his successes. In any case, he had no political traction. For some reason, people heard not so much the substance of his words as his voice, an instrument that tended to reduce his strongest convictions to a whine. Maybe it was the upper Midwest talking, the boyhood as a Norwegian minister's son. In the vibrations of his voice, like wind through fence wire on a gray day, one heard the coming of a Minnesota winter...
...clear standout among the young companies has been LSI Logic. Since it was founded in 1981, the Silicon Valley firm has become a key supplier of customized logic chips to major computer makers, telecommunications companies and the aerospace industry. LSI President Corrigan, former chairman of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, boasts that his engineers apply "more brains per square inch" to the task of designing chips. Investors seem to agree. LSI Logic was able to raise $152 million by selling stock to an eager public...
Abely was instrument in brining that losing streak to an end Saturday on Soldiers Field, when she recorded seven key saves as the Cantabs toppled Cornell...