Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...manufacturers are getting savvier at marketing their wares. Apple Chairman John Sculley, former president of Pepsi-Cola, has visited many Big Business cronies to tout the Macintosh. The result: Apple's sales to the commercial market have nearly doubled since 1984, and the Mac is seen as a tool for executives instead of just a plaything for students and hobbyists. As Sculley told TIME: "We had to reposition the whole company...
...vigilantes have proved an effective tool for counterinsurgency alongside the still ill-equipped and poorly paid Philippine armed forces. Nowhere is that clearer than in Davao City, the sprawling city-state in southeastern Mindanao. A year ago Davao City and its 1.4 million people were so firmly in the control of the insurgents that Manila officials called the city a Communist "urban laboratory." But in the past eight months the N.P.A. has fled into the hills, and the city has been transformed into a government stronghold. The main agent of change: the vigilante group Alsa Masa, or Uprising...
...Slater's portrait of a successful working woman crumbles into the standard role of sexy sidekick. Instead of using her brains to save the company, Christie ends up kissing Brantley when he lands the CEO chair. She is reduced from a strong, sassy character into a one-dimensional sexual tool...
...powerful force in many ways throughout the novel; it is a tool of political intrigue, a commodity exchanged between men and women, and a road to happiness. Politics rears its somewhat ugly head in each woman's life--complete with bizarre schemes and dangerous, extremely good-looking spies--usually to the woman's utter dismay. And the otherworldly is present in large measure; the dead return to life, women develop into telepaths, angels fall from heaven...
...years, students charged that the CRR was a University tool created to squelch political protest on campus. Students have traditionally boycotted the controversial body...