Word: instrument
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Sharp said telephone interceptions and microwave and satellite transmissions were the two primary concerns. "The proposal is to provide an inexpensive and user-friendly secure telephone instrument that would provide privacy between the sender and the recipient,: he said...
...part because the Justices have been able to adapt it to what Jus tice Holmes called "the felt necessities of the time." Such a task is delicate, to be undertaken with reverence for established principle and the slow evolution of fundamental rights. If the court becomes a mere political instrument, it will lose its legitimacy; if the Justices become the blunt tools of the Presidents who appoint them their judgments will be just as transitory It is reassuring that, once ensconced in the high court, so many of the Brethren develop a higher loyalty. - By Evan Thomas...
...largest operators, Treasure Salvors of Florida, uses a specially designed high-speed magnetometer. Because it can move four times as fast as a normal instrument, the company has been able to cover 240,000 smiles of seabed with unusual speed and thoroughness...
...that books donated to Harvard be catalogued through the College Library. But that arrangement quickly broke down--and a century later, Handlin says, "the basic situation remains unchanged. The absolute autonomy of each individual unit sometimes creates an infuriating impasse at the center, which is armed only with the instrument of moral suasion...
...convey the egg from the ovaries to the uterus, are where fertilization normally occurs. If they are blocked or damaged or frozen in place by scar tissue, the egg will be unable to complete its journey. To examine the tubes, a doctor uses X rays or a telescope-like instrument called a laparoscope, which is inserted directly into the pelvic area through a small, abdominal incision. Delicate microsurgery, and, more recently, laser surgery, sometimes can repair the damage successfully. According to Beverly Freeman, executive director of Resolve, a national infertility-counseling organization, microsurgery can restore fertility in 70% of women...