Word: instrumentality
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...responded in a positive fashion, by focusing its energy on the game. Quite to the contrary, though, it seemed to become almost spiteful, displaying some of the most outrageous behavior I have ever witnessed by any school band. For example, one fellow in the front row put down his instrument and took up a newspaper, reading while the game was being played. Another woman in the middle section of the band put down her instrument and proceeded to work intensely on her knitting, again while the game was in progress. Moreover, just after a goal was scored by B.U., placing...
Crandall is the kind of blunt corporate instrument who is used to this sort of stuff. He has frequently antagonized the pilots over the years and once even mocked a pilot-commissioned study of the company, saying, "If the pilots were in charge, Columbus would still be in port." But he may also have misread apa's intent. Crandall thought he had a deal last fall, but a hard-line union contingent, working through the Internet, mobilized membership to reject a contract offer blessed by the union's executive committee...
...reduce the risk, Williams is testing a remote gas sensor that can read a volcano's emissions from a plane flying nearby or even a car driving past at a distance of as much as 20 miles. The instrument works by detecting changes in the infrared energy caused by different gases in the volcanic plume. Says Williams: "Volcanoes give gaseous signals of approaching eruptions. This gives us the lead time we need to get people educated and not terrorized...
...used the word "damn" in a phone conversation, and his service was discontinued. Pugh challenged the company in court but the judge ruled against him: "The telephone," wrote the judge, "reaches into many family circles. It must be remembered that it is possible, from the peculiar arrangement of the instrument, to have a communication that is intended for one individual to reach another. All communications, therefore, should be in proper language...
...obsessed scientist whose instincts for catastrophe are more finely tuned than any predictive instrument; his bureaucratic superiors whose waffling makes a bad situation worse; businessmen determined to stifle talk about threats to life, limb and, above all, property for fear of the impact on their interests; a woman, scared but spunky and available for romance when she is not dodging falling objects; and, if possible, an adorable dog to be lost in whatever chaos the movie is trafficking in, then found and daringly rescued to the cheers of an audience that has stoically watched hundreds of anonymous human extras perish...