Word: instrumentality
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...your articles on America's new immigrants [SPECIAL ISSUE, July 8], but I do not think of our country as a melting pot. To me that term implies that we have all been reduced to one large blob. I prefer to think of us as a symphony orchestra. Each instrument retains its individuality, yet contributes to the whole. Zena Sky Kansas City...
...lonely but intriguing fashion beyond the old Senate "club" and the Democratic Party's reflexive partisanship. He can be as tough as boiled owls about Reagan's policies ("cold unfairness") but in the same breath admiring of the man ("Ronald Reagan has restored the presidency as a vigorous, purposeful instrument of national leadership...
...similar growth on Nancy Reagan's upper lip in 1982, were excised by a procedure called curettage and electrodesiccation (see diagram) that usually takes five minutes. In this method, the dermatologist applies a local anesthetic and then scrapes away the soft, mushy tumor cells with a curette, an instrument with a sharp circular blade. Afterward, an electrified needle is applied to the area to destroy any remnants of malignancy. In the case of Nixon's l-in.-sq. tumor, a method called microscopically controlled surgery was used. The process calls for the removal of successive slices of tissue, each...
Their optimism was soon dashed. On the first day of flight, the astronauts tried to deploy a new instrument-pointing system (IPS), designed in West Germany, that aimed three of the onboard telescopes at celestial objects. The precision of the IPS is equivalent to focusing on a dime two miles away. The $60 million device, however, had bugs in its computer software and would not track properly. There was a brief moment when Astronomer-Astronaut Karl Henize shouted, "Hallelujah, it looks like it's working!" only to watch it wobble off target. Conceded Henize: "That hallelujah...
...crew crammed even more work into their already difficult round-the-clock schedule. An X-ray telescope zoomed in on the distant stellar clusters of Virgo and Centaurus, recording the precise contours of their massive radiation fields. Toward the other end of the electromagnetic spectrum, another telescope, an infrared instrument, mapped the invisible heat of the Milky Way. A small satellite called the plasma diagnostics package was suspended from the ship's giant remote arm to measure "ripples," or the wake that the shuttle causes in the earth's ionosphere. At several points, the shuttle fired its thrusters to poke...