Word: levered
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Freeze! may well be designed to help people learn how they can prevent nuclear war, but its main method of accomplishing this seems to be to remind the public that Ted Kennedy is out front on the issue--if you want a freeze, pull the lever next to his name in 1984. Indeed, Kennedy's book is part of his strategy to ride a wave of nuclear protest into the White House...
...machine is merely a means. What got man to the moon was his desire to go there-desire being yet another of those elements that a computer cannot simulate or experience. It was far less interesting, for instance, that Archimedes believed he could move the earth with his lever than that he wanted to try it. Similarly, no machine could have propelled man to the moon had not the moon been in man in the first place...
...settle the crisis, the United States should put extra pressure on Argentina to withdraw and should not hesitate to threaten that nation with economic sanctions and bans on imports. As long as the United States has chosen to establish cordial ties with Argentina, it must use that economic lever age as a bargaining chip...
...import surcharge, by contrast, would encourage domestic production by using imported oil as a kind of lever to set a higher price for all petroleum in the U.S. market. Moreover, foreign suppliers would get no benefit from the higher prices since the resulting revenues would flow to the U.S. Treasury...
...happen I do not know. This discussion began with the statement that the goal of changing American outlooks might well be impossible. But hope. For two reasons hope. The first is because true change is not going to come through other means: the envelope-stuffing, placard-carrying, doorbell-ringing, lever-pulling and influence-peddling will not alone, as the anti-war movement proved, accomplish true reform. So if there is to be hope, and there must always be, it will have to rest on something else. And hope also because there are examples, not only in the Black American church...