Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...A.C.L.U. has lost its meaning and usefulness. It's a tool of the demented lunatic fringe. Freedom of speech is not absolute when it advocates violence, destruction and genocide...
...researchers stress that at least three years will be needed to verify and refine the technique. Says Salmon: "This is not now a clinical test available in every hospital. Until it has had adequate testing, it should be considered only a promising research tool." Still, that promise is exciting. A Journal editorial accompanying the paper notes that "an effective and practical predictive test for antitumor agents would have a profound effect on the treatment of cancer...
...long ago a Belgian businessman wanted the European marketing rights for a new U.S. machine tool. After several of his letters went unanswered, he flew out to see the manufacturer, who told him: "We don't export -it's too much trouble." Unlike the aggressive, go-anywhere Yankee traders of old, modern American businessmen have long had at their doorstep the richest market on earth and felt far less pressure than their foreign counterparts to seek exports. But that could be changing...
...Senate seat in 1968. Proving himself a wizard of the Senate rule book, he proceeded to confound his Northern colleagues by calling for a jumble of motions, resolutions and postponements on key issues that usually wrung concessions for his vocal Southern bloc. The filibuster was his most powerful tool until 1975, when, over his elaborate objections, the Senate modified Rule 22 to allow the votes of only three-fifths of the fall Senate to limit debate on most matters. In the canal fight, Allen urged and won an amendment permitting the maintenance of U.S. troops in Panama, if the President...
...busts of earlier Electors, paintings of Adam and Eve, and a portrait of Martin Luther get no greater pride of place than the products of other craftsmen-a drinking vessel in the shape of an ostrich, an astronomical clock, a carpenter's jack plane or an ornate traveling tool...