Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Harvard's negotiators have held to a hard line throughout the contract talks this spring and summer, refusing to bend on most issues. Last week's strike vote was as much a bargaining tool as an expression of their anger and discontent with the University's intransigence. The kitchen workers are meeting this week to spell out the terms they would like to see in a renegotiated contract, but there is little hope that the University will display the flexibility that most of the workers hope for and Harvard has made every effort to discourage them. The University's chief...
...House Economics Adviser Charles Schultze, Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long, Senator Edward Kennedy, House Ways and Means Chairman Al Ullman, and Conable. What emerged, among other things, was a surprisingly broad consensus that tax policy, both as a mirror of the nation's goals and as a tool to help achieve them, is moving-and must continue to move-in a new direction...
ROCK MUSICIANS WHO die in the service of the faith have a way of becoming idolized and canonized by the legions of the rock and roll faithful. Lynyrd Skynyrd, thanks to the auspices of a chartered plane (the same tool of fate used to glorify Jim Croce and Buddy Holly), is now a certified rock and roll legend--martyr, if you will. Last winter, the leader of the group, Ronnie Van Zant, and several band members died in a plane crash which terminated Skynyrd's ascent to the forefront of Southern and probably American rock. Left behind, broken...
...students express anything but scorn for the Shah and condemnation of his U.S. supporters. Says Phyllis Bennis, a California attorney representing 165 Iranian students who were arrested in a Los Angeles demonstration last week: "Iran has been made a prime market in the Middle East. The Shah is a tool of the U.S. corporations." Others charge that the Shah's modernization program is largely a myth. "People are fighting with the regime because the Shah never did make land reforms," insists Farhad Ehya, a spokesman for the Iranian Student Organization at U.C.L.A. "Whatever he did, he took back. The people...
...Nobel Prize by taking the first step toward a goal that has long been a dream of physicists: the consummation of what Wheeler calls the "fiery marriage" between general relativity-the great theoretical system for studying the large-scale structure of the cosmos-and quantum mechanics-the mathematical tool for analyzing the diminutive world of the atomic nucleus...