Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...shook and rattled when he turned on the forward-motion jets. The space walkers also retrieved a faulty camera from the aft end of the cargo bay, engaged in a brief and successful tryout of the shuttle's sinewy, 50-ft.-long arm, readjusted a scientific instrument on the big West German-made movable platform called the Shuttle Pallet Satellite (SPAS) and tested some of the tools created for April's satellite retrieval...
...away from the musical tradition it perpetuated. The punk movement, for instance, was essentially a backlash against the free love and peace spirit of the hippie era. Yet, the punks use a traditional rock format (albeit in a much harsher, angrier form than that of the 60s) as their instrument in fighting the rock music of the 60s and 70s. The punk movement may have started as a rebellion against the falseness of the decaying ideas of the hippie revolution. But by the 80s, the slashed haircuts, the bondage imagery, and the talk of anarchy was no more realistic...
...should the U.S. continue aid to the contra guerrillas who are waging war against the Sandinistas? Ten of the commissioners indicated that aid to the contras was a useful instrument of pressure against Nicaragua. Henry Cisneros, Democratic mayor of San Antonio, and Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, a Cuban-born Yale economics professor, objected. Diaz-Alejandro viewed aid to the contras as "likely to strengthen the most extremist sectors of the Sandinista leadership" against what would be perceived as an outside threat to Nicaragua. Cisneros urged that aid to rebels be suspended through 1985 to give the U.S. a chance to test...
...with promises of quick riches. He says that venture capitalists are in the process of wrecking some good high-tech firms. Of course, several of Intel's senior executives are partners in venture capital funds. Moreover, the company was started by two scientists who left Fairchild Camera and Instrument...
...less publicized role as a venture capitalist. With his success has come enormous wealth. His 1.5 million shares in Intel, where he now serves as vice chairman, are worth $60 million. Along with Arthur Rock, his friend of 30 years, Noyce in 1977 helped bankroll Diasonics, the medical-instrument manufacturer. Noyce's 8% stake in Diasonics is worth $30 million. He helped finance Monoclonal Antibodies, which sells pregnancy-testing kits and hopes to market a product that will predict the timing of ovulation. Noyce has also suffered a few setbacks. Through a venture-capital fund, he invested in Osborne...