Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediacy to the movement's struggle and reinforces the very real sense of what is oppressive in our society, of why we are alienated. It is in this way that Movement serves itself most effectively. By evoking this sense of alienation so powerfully, Movement becomes an effective organizing tool and goes a long way toward defining the self-conscious bonds of solidarity among youth...
...long ago, the discount ratethe interest charge on Government loans to commercial bankswas the Federal Reserve Board's main tool for influencing the economy, and changes in the rate occasionally became hot political issues. In the past year and a half, the Federal Reserve has relied mainly on changes in the pace at which it expands the nation's money supply, and has let the discount rate stay at 6%. When the board finally cut the rate a quarter-point last week, the reaction in the financial community was cheerful butunexcited...
...young Americans have done more to "work within the system" than a growing band of lawyers who toil overtime honing a new tool of social reform -the public-interest law firm. Convinced that established law firms have hired the nation's best legal minds to concentrate on serving rich corporate clients, the young lawyers have started their own firms to fight for consumer, conservation and other under-represented interests...
Marighella's emphasis on terror as a tool for disrupting society borrows, of course, from the destructive spirit of anarchism, with its "propaganda of deed." The current upsurge of terrorist actions, in fact, strongly recalls the last decades of the 19th century, when an anarchistic reign of terror spread a blanket of fear over Europe...
...cent cut in personnel. At the present time such gross methods do not appear to me to be appropriate. The needs and opportunities and the state of development of various departments and budgetary units differ greatly. A procrustean formula at this date is a poor tool...