Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Hampshire. He made sure that thousands of calls to Bush supporters were made every week, keeping the faithful juiced up. Before the Iowa caucuses, he sent out an early warning to Bush workers: expect bad news; don't let it shake your people; use it as a tool to motivate supporters. When Bush canvassers identified a couple with children away at college, they made sure the students received absentee ballots. "We took this seriously," said Sununu matter-of-factly. "We did some spadework here...
Iowa has held caucuses since 1917 because the process is "an effective tool for getting more participants into politics and building grassroots contituents," said John C. Cacciatore, financial director of the Iowa Democratic Party...
Then came Black Monday. When the market crashed on Oct. 19, so did the reputation of this hot new investment tool. Since then the assets covered by portfolio insurance have shrunk by about two-thirds. Worse, its practitioners were accused by a presidential task force chaired by Investment Banker Nicholas Brady of being primarily responsible for the severity of the crash. Says Howard Stein, chairman of Dreyfus and a member of the Brady commission: "A handful of aggressive speculators brought the market to near collapse." Robert Kirby, chairman of Capital Guardian Trust and another task- force member, comments, "They...
...Iran-contra affair showed anything, it wasn't that the "CIA can corrupt U.S. foreign policy." It was that the CIA is a tool that can be misused by the officials who make U.S. foreign policy. To argue otherwise is to forget that our elected leaders control the agency, and that it is they who are responsible for its mistakes...
Gradually, the riddle of how grassland becomes a desert unravels. It is most often believed to be ruined by overgrazing, but it can be abused by no grazing at all. "Grazing, like the use of rest, fire or technology, is only a tool applied by a human. You must look at the context, understand the landscape as a whole, observe keenly day by day and change your plans accordingly...