Word: instrumentality
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...Piper Archer N8304L to work each day at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif., and have been doing so for 13 years ["CEOs as Pilots," Dec. 23, 2002]. At 66, I am instrument rated, and I have no trouble staying current. Flying to work doesn't shave any time off of my commute--which takes two hours each way, by car or by plane--but it makes the trip something to look forward to, rather than the mind-numbing experience it used to be. Flying is special in ways that go far beyond the shallow "I always dreamed...
...University entered into a licensing agreement with a scientific instrument company earlier this week, allowing the firm to continue to share the Harvard name and resolving a multi-year legal conflict...
...agreement also allows the instrument company to preserve the names of some of its products, although the corporation must avoid using the color crimson, as well as fonts typically used by the University and other potentially confusing stylistic elements...
...BLSA’s own stated purpose of creating a “discriminatory harassment policy” to ameliorate ethnic insensitivity. As ACLU president, Nadine Strossen wrote in the Duke Law Journal, “Because civil libertarians have learned that free speech is an indispensable instrument for the promotion of other rights and freedoms—including racial equality—we fear that the movement to regulate campus expression will undermine equality, as well as free speech. Combating racial discrimination and protecting free speech should be viewed as mutually reinforcing, rather than antagonistic, goals...
...played a vigorous rhythm guitar, ceding the fancy solos to Scotty Moore. But on one 1957 session, when slap-bassist Bill Black walked out in frustration after being unable to master the rumbling electric-bass intro for the Leiber-Stoller "Baby, I Don't Care," Elvis picked up the instrument and played the line perfectly. He would also push for extra takes to get a song right. He insisted on 31 stabs at "Hound Dog," then listened pensively to the playbacks and said of the final take, "This is the one." End of discussion. Elvis was the boss...