Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Robert M. Porterfield, Neiman Fellow and Pulitizer Prize winning writer from the Anchorage Daily News shared Vanriper's sentiments, saying, "The first amendment is more important than the sixth; we are not a tool...
...year later, Roberts discovered his invention prominently displayed in a Sears catalog. As it turned out, while trying to discourage him about the value of the tool, the company had test-marketed it and converted about 75% of its wrenches to his design. Sears went on to sell 26 million of the wrenches for a profit of about $44 million. Roberts sued. In December 1976 a federal jury decided that Sears had obtained Roberts' patent fraudulently. The jury awarded him $1 million. Last week, after Sears had fought the decision all the way to the Supreme Court and lost...
...seem beyond the ministrations of ordinary medicine. At the dowsing convention headquarters in the Danville town hall, piles of books on the occult are offered for sale, from the works of Edgar Cayce to studies of UFOs and the Bermuda Triangle. Dowsing buffs can also buy every kind of tool, from little plastic rods (at $1 a pair) to miraculous electronic black boxes (price: $65) that purportedly "discharge toxic vibrations from your mind, emotions and etheric body." Explains Raymond Willey, the society's secretary and a retired General Electric engineer: "Dowsing for water is only the bottom rung...
...planes are going to businessmen," says Ed Stimpson, president of the General Aviation Manufacturers Association. One reason is that the nation's corporate structure is becoming increasingly decentralized, its manufacturing plants scattered around the country. Claims Stimpson: "The company plane is seen today as a vital business tool, a real timesaving machine...
...trade as a policy tool has led to sharp combat within the Administration between those who favor it (led by National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski) and those who are strongly opposed (led by Commerce Secretary Juanita Kreps). Carter seems to be leaning in some respects toward the Kreps side: he has now decreed that the U.S. should sell products to an unsavory customer if the customer could buy them somewhere else...