Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...facts are stricken, I can substitute others." Wallraff, who lives with his wife and two daughters in a working-class section of Cologne, admits to leftist sympathies. But he insists that politics do not color his reporting. "I rely on indignation, anger and my own sensitivity," he says. "My tool as a journalist is not secondhand information but what I have experienced...
...easy to forget that the elderly constitute a minority group, and that mandatory retirement is a vicious tool of discrimination against this group. We agree with the ultimate philosophy of affirmative action--that standards of merit should be the only criteria for employment. But that philosophy should apply to the old as well. Chronological age alone is not a valid criteria for choosing employees...
Their chief tool, in fact, is not new at all: the U.S. Postal Service. Through direct-mail bombardment, the right alerts its friends to a particular cause and adds to its converts. In this letter-box war for American minds, the top general is Viguerie, who is considered by friend and foe alike the "godfather" of the New Right. At his office in Falls Church, Va., some 300 people crank out 100 million letters a year (200 million in an election year) to 5 million conservatives whose names are on computer tapes. Says Viguerie: "The left controls all communications except...
...changing the zoning map and limiting the amount of building space available on certain Harvard properties, Cambridge citizens have discovered what they consider a useful tool for limiting the construction of large buildings in a city that was heavily zoned for industrial and commercial development in 1961. For the past eight years, down-zoning has emerged as a definite trend, Richard Morgan, junior planner for the city, says. Morgan notes that almost three-fourths of the requests for down-zoning since 1969 have been successful--because, he says, residents and developers have both realized that the city would become overdeveloped...
Plyushch, who was arrested and confined to a Soviet mental institution in 1973, was scheduled to speak on "Psychiatry as a Tool of Soviet Political Oppression." He confined most of his remarks, however, to a discussion of the efforts of Soviet dissident groups to pressure their government to adhere to the human rights provisions of the 1975 Helsinki Accord...