Word: instruments
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Since the 1930s, the chief instrument for building that community has been the house system. The administration believes that a debit-card system would encourage students to forego meals in their houses, thus weakening ties among house members and eroding the sense of community...
...news of recent elections in South America and India dominated by reports about polls. That is more than a little disturbing. For, as the best pollsters recognize, the deepest questions of life -- or politics, or journalism -- can be probed only in the most primitive manner with the blunt instrument of a poll. Thus readers entering upon stories peppered with numbers and percentage signs should arm themselves with a mental note: POLL AHEAD -- PROCEED AT YOUR OWN RISK...
...insisted, however, that the committee did not suppress scientific inquiry. "As long as someone has a legitimate interest and a legitimate instrument, we are not in the business of preventing people from asking questions...
Potentially more worrisome is a different kind of credit contraction, a cyclical one. In the gaga '80s, lenders used practically every debt instrument imaginable. Junk bonds were issued in an almost endless variety of complex forms. The consumer got into the act as well. Home-equity loans and lines of credit, which are basically latter-day relatives of the second mortgages that led to so many foreclosures in the 1930s, rose from $20 billion in 1985 to $75 billion in 1988. At the same time, creditors lengthened maturities. The average auto loan is now payable over 48 months, up from...
...coming from," she says. "I'm full of ideas, but I needed someone to collaborate with." After a rolling wave of cancellations, she took most of 1989 off before the Met debut, in order "to get things straight. Sometimes I wished the voice were like a violin, an instrument in a box -- and you could put the box in a closet." But the period of questioning is over. Time now to celebrate all those sad, mad girls in productions that just might suit. As the prima donna promises, "I'm just starting my prime...