Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard community should use its prestige as a tool for social action, consumer advocate Ralph Nader, Harvard Law '58, said in a speech last night to a near-capacity crowd at Science Center...
...what is going on for a person, and what might be expected to go on in their life, we offer clarity and perspective on directions that the person could move in," says Linda, a reader who asked that her last name not be used. "Psychic readings are a tool for the inspection of the self," Linda says. "We are like mirrors, we often just confirm what a person already knows about themself...
...letter that accompanied the report when it was submitted to Reagan says that the case studies were used as a tool for understanding the context of the current White House crisis...
Using arms shipments as a bargaining tool with Iran may not have been illegal. Although it violated publicly proclaimed U.S. policy and arms-export laws, the President had the power to waive the laws by issuing a finding that the actions were in the national interest. But the commission is likely to be harshly critical of the hypocrisy and folly of this failed policy...
...raising money often proved the easy part. In Ethiopia, the Marxist government of Mengistu Haile Mariam, which is battling guerrillas in the country's northern provinces, promptly turned aid into a political tool. Government troops seized a food-laden ship to keep supplies from reaching the rebel-held north, where the famine was most severe. In Sudan, guerrillas battling Prime Minister Sadiq al-Mahdi's regime shot down a passenger plane last August, killing 60 people, and threatened to shoot any relief aircraft that tried to land in the south, where some 2 million Sudanese needed food...