Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...exhibitors are offering everything from an aircraft instrument landing system to a diesel electric locomotive. Doing business with Peking can be both sweet and sour. Japanese businessmen, no amateurs themselves, describe Mao's Marxist idealists as ruthless bargainers. Moreover, the Reds begin every session with an infuriating propaganda speech, and cannot meet at all on Wednesdays and Saturdays, when they do their own indoctrinal homework...
According to Galbraith, there was another reason why a minority regarded Goldwater as "the most significant instrument for political purification since Savonarola." Many people, he explained, confused by statements that seem to conflict with policy as it is practiced, conclude that "the men in charge... cannot be living by their expressed views." These people tend to search, he said, for someone whose words and deeds will be consistent...
Avedon is possessed of a lens that is a subtler, cruder instrument of distortion than any caricaturist's pencil. Washington Hostess Perle Mesta appears whiskered and wattle-throated; Dwight Eisenhower looks like his own corpse simple people getting married at City Hall look bloated, ugly, foolish; Adlai Stevenson looks tired, disillusioned, a little sly; Playwright Arthur Miller looks scrufty, torn by anxiety...
...President, Hoover utilized federal power as an instrument to support the private economy far more than any President before him. At his urging, Congress created a Federal Farm Board, backed by $500 million in federal funds, which came to the aid of farm marketing cooperatives after the market crash. He sought $663 million to push public works-a figure that critics decried as excessive. He proposed the Reconstruction Finance Corporation and the National Credit Corporation. He secured an early agreement in which labor promised to forgo strikes and new wage demands, Big Business agreed to maintain wages and spread work...
...being hostile to communists until they have shown by actions as well as words, that they have renounced this goal. In Goldwater's view, the communist threat is our main problem. Thus the U.N., which cannot deal with that problem, may be useful, but cannot be the chief instrument of our foreign policy...