Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...generous contributor to the Democratic Party in Washington State, spoke for Hughes. Lined up against him were Vice Chairman Edmund Converse, for mer head of Bonanza, and President G. Robert Henry. They insisted that Air West has enormous potential and that the offer, made through the Hughes Tool Co., was far too low. Says Henry: "We're spread over the richest and most progressive part of the country. You couldn't have a better territory." In deed, since the merger Air West has increased its routes by more than one-third, to 9,982 miles crisscrossing eight Western...
...Computerized research is not necessarily good research. We won't start using just another fancy tool," Rodwin said...
...Commission rarely uses its most powerful enforcement tool, preliminary injunctions. Its method of seeking compliance with cease and desist orders is "grossly inadequate" and enforcement delays are "excessive...
...with 85,000 imported trees, where he entertained the likes of General Grant and Commodore Vanderbilt. Yet as America progressed beyond the crude improvisations of frontier justice, Pinkerton gradually fitted less and less serviceably into his society. An outspoken admirer of vigilante tactics, he became a willing, over-brutal tool of mine owners and steel bosses in the terrorism that marked the early attempts to pioneer workers' rights...
THEIR VERY accuracy--at least in certain circumstances--makes the public opinion surveys an important political tool. Even as simple mirrors of public opinion they can have far-reaching side effects. For instance, no one knows how many voters last month were swayed by a tendency to jump aboard a Nixon band wagon. Leading pollsters, including Gallup, unequivocally reject the notion that there may be a so-called "band-wagon effect." They cite Hubert Humphrey's dramatic comeback as evidence for their view. Still others feel that the polls may actually have helped Humphrey by generating an "underdog" sympathy vote...