Word: toole
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Elliott 503 computer may at first appear to be a curious tool for the serious Bible student. In this case, though, it seemed the only way to resolve a centuries-old dispute (see RELIGION, "Isaiah and the Computer...
Young: Any further riots will be met with swift massive law enforcement, so riots as a possible tool quickly outlived their usefulness. There are 'three or four viable techniques. There is economic power, which can be mobilized to reward one's friends and punish one's enemies. There is brain power, where one can, through sheer competence, move into strategic places in the Establishment and from that vantage point have an influence on policy. And there is political power. Economic and brain power are both the best long-range instruments. The political can be mobilized immediately...
...principle of black majority rule there. But in the Security Council, the U.S. gave an impression that it was retreating a step or two from the principle of black African self-government. In any case, the U.S. has now lost whatever purity went with avoiding the obstructionist's tool, the veto...
Detecting explosives by the vapors they give off is based on one of the stock-in-trade techniques of the modern scientific laboratory: chromatography, an analytical tool invented 64 years ago by an obscure Russian botanist named Mikhail Semenovich Tsvett. While trying to separate certain plant pigments, Tsvett discovered that they could be differentiated easily by letting a mixture wash down the side of a column of limestone. The pigments-each sticking to the surface in a characteristic way -flowed down the stone at markedly different rates, enabling Tsvett to distinguish them from one another. Over the years, chromatography...
...Administration is also relying increasingly on the argument that the U.S. must have ABM as what Laird called "a most important bargaining tool" in the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) with the Soviets when the sessions resume in Vienna next month. The U.S. SALT delegation came back from the opening round in Helsinki convinced that little obsesses the Soviets more than what the U.S. is up to in the ABM department. Hence the strategists' firm conclusion that the U.S. needs an ongoing program to induce the Russians to bargain seriously...