Word: toole
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Other Senators told the students that resumed testing was a necessary psychological tool in the cold war, but insisted that only the President is competent to decide the issue...
Notre Dame has long given science its due. Its famed Lobund Laboratories were created 30 years ago to develop germ-free animals as a tool for medical research. Its radiation lab claims the nation's largest radiation chemistry program, and is now being expanded by the AEC to the tune of $2,200,000. Notre Dame also gets good grades in chemistry, English, history and math. But it still cannot afford sabbaticals for research or a psychology department (launching cost: $220,000). It is notably weak in social sciences...
...that an 8% writeoff would have as much impact, for most industries, as a 40% speedup in depreciation writeoffs. President Kennedy has also helped his own cause by speeding depreciation schedules in the textile industry and promising that further liberalization is ahead in the railroad, aircraft and machine-tool industries. Businessmen are thus coming to believe that they can get both the tax credit and faster depreciation...
Clinging Twilight. The basic navigation tool is still the time-honored sextant, with which a navigator shoots the stars (or planets, sun or moon) to fix his plane's position above the surface of the spinning earth. Sextants have been vastly improved since the days of sailing ships, and a competent navigator can make a fix that is accurate to within ten miles. If weather permits, he takes about five fixes during a transatlantic crossing...
...swiftly and certainly. Through his various powers, controls and discretions, he can exercise enormous influence on the flow of legislation. No law may be enacted without the Speaker's signature. His right to refuse recognition to members rising to speak on the floor is a legislative tool of immense power; his discretionary privilege of entertaining or refusing to entertain a motion is another...