Word: instruments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...principal instrument was the defense budget, which had traditionally been sliced up among the three services, with each recipient determining pretty much how its portion should be spent. McNamara replaced this with a system of allocation by function, or mission, regardless of service bureaucracy. Nine broad missions were defined, such as strategic forces and general-purpose forces, and the Army, Navy and Air Force departments were compelled to integrate their efforts whether the activity was nuclear targeting or paper-clip purchases...
Makarios objected to the disbanding of the Greek Cypriot National Guard, his main instrument of power, so long as the Turks were allowed to keep 650 men stationed on Cyprus and the Greeks 950. If the Guard must go, maintained Makarios, so must the foreign troops. He also felt that the sovereignty of Cyprus would be jeopardized by any broadening of U.N. jurisdiction on the island beyond the U.N.'s present duty to maintain the peace with 4,000 troops...
...interests in themselves that they had not known they possessed. From looking at their pre-Voluntter experience as well as from talking with them, I gained the impression that a number of them had become more sensitive, more aware of themselves and others--for in community development, the principal instrument one has to work with is neither a shovel nor a tractor, but one's self...
From now on the organ will be used regularly in Memorial Church services, both as a solo instrument and for service and anthem accompaniments...
...feel the library should be made an instrument of student protest," Wilson said...