Word: instrumentalized
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Soviet border, where government representatives were meeting with some of the 300 farmers who have occupied a local government building for five weeks. Their key demand was legalization of Rural Solidarity, the independent farm union. Kania last week reiterated his opposition to the farm union as a potential instrument of "political struggle against the people's power." The supreme court is expected to endorse that view when it rules on Rural Solidarity's status this week...
...intense competition, NASA chose Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore as home of the new Space Telescope Science Institute. From there a staff of 150 people among them 40 astronomers, will direct the floating observatory. C. Robert O'Dell, 43, the project's chief scientist, thinks the new instrument may be the most important telescope ever built. Lofted into earth orbit by the space shuttle, it will expand the astronomers' universe (increasing its observable volume 350-fold) and render whatever it reaches visible in exquisite new detail. The space telescope's primary lens-actually a mirror-will...
...multimillion-dollar mechanism must be crafted with jeweler's precision. The curvature of the mirrors will be ground to an accuracy of better than a millionth of an inch, tolerances that would be wasted in a ground-based instrument because of atmospheric disturbances. The telescope's pointing system, locking onto guide stars and controlled by flywheels, will be able to fix on an object the size of a dime at a distance of 400 miles...
...ground observatory. But the payoff should be enormous. Because of its power, as well as its ability to "see" frequencies of light obscured by the atmosphere, the space telescope will open whole new worlds to human experience. It may spot planets in orbit around other stars, something no current instrument has done. It should measure more accurately than ever before the distance to far-off galaxies-great islands of stars like our Milky Way. By glimpsing objects as far off as 14 billion light years, it will be capturing light that has taken 14 billion years to reach...
...oldtimers who were ousted in successive housecleanings during the past few years. The current director, Admiral Stansfield Turner, downgraded the importance of human beings in intelligence gathering on the scene. Says a veteran intelligence officer: "His big mistake was becoming intoxicated with our technical proficiency. It is a great instrument, but only an instrument." The agency has been particularly short of analysts in the world's crisis areas: the Persian Gulf, Central America, Africa...