Word: instruments
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...their opportunity has come. This week the space shuttle Discovery was scheduled to take off and deliver into earth orbit the Hubble space telescope, a bus-size instrument that will see the cosmos ten times as clearly as any ground-based telescope ever has. Scientists have impatiently awaited the historic launch through three years of delays caused by the shuttle's problems in the aftermath of the Challenger explosion...
...reforms succeed, Kemp will be remembered for turning a bureaucratic cesspool into an effective and vibrant instrument of reform...
...could the dread strike have become such an uncertain instrument? The right of union members to strike without losing their jobs has long been a cherished tenet of the American labor movement. The National Labor Relations Act of 1935 does indeed grant them that right. But while the statute prohibits employers from firing or punishing striking union members, those same employers can cite a 1938 Supreme Court decision giving them the right to hire permanent replacements for workers who are striking for such "economic reasons" as pay hikes or benefits (as opposed to unfair labor practices). In other words...
...university strongly defends its conduct. Says athletic director Brian Quinn: "We had a clearance for him to play from outstanding physicians." But school officials were concerned enough about Gathers' condition to supply the basketball team with a defibrillator, a medical instrument that could be used to help resuscitate any player or fan who suffered a heart attack. It was used unsuccessfully on Gathers the night of the tragedy...
...long and slender fingers that could belong to a master concert pianist. But Michael D. Lewis '93 uses his prized digits to work their magic on a different instrument--the typewriter...