Word: instrumentalization
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...political problem than fight a guerrilla war. But after defeating the army -- which a Pentagon official estimates would be "finished up by dawn" -- the situation gets messy fast. Military force can be an effective tool for toppling regimes, but as a means of rebuilding societies, it is a blunt instrument the U.S. has not wielded effectively in similar cases, such as Somalia...
...convenient. Gone are any hints at obligations to the international structure; the U.N. is just one of many tools at the U.S.'s disposal: "circumstances will arise, however, when multilateral action best serves U.S. interests in preserving or restoring peace. In such cases, the U.N. can be an important instrument for collective action...
...directly, has chosen indirect involvement through NATO and the U.N. The result? Rather than harness awesome American air power (on display only three years ago in the Gulf War) to a coherent campaign to do something significant about Serb advances, the U.S. allows its air force to become the instrument of absurd power struggles among U.N. officials in Bosnia...
...doctor recently told Harvard-Radcliffe Orchestra bassoonist Glenn M. Davis '95 he couldn't play his instrument for four or five months. He can only hope that he won't have to wait a year, like other musicians bothered by pain similar to his, before his doctor lifts the restriction...
Skoff has had many student patients, most ofwhom are musicians. In running fingers up and downpiano keys, or the neck of stringed instrument,for example, musicians perform repetitiousmovements. Davis says he knows students in the HROwho have had or continue the have cases of handand wrist injury...