Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...under the guise of terrorism--sponsored by the state of Libya. The distinction is important. If reports are correct, Khadafy, with the help of Libyan diplomats working out of Libyan People's Bureaus in West Berlin, engineered an attack on a West German discotheque. Although terrorism was Khadafy's tool, his action was akin to a military attack. Seen in this light, the American military response is, at the very least, a justifiable move...
...Since the Yard belongs to all students in common, that symbol [of divestment] in the Yard should represent the views of all students," Kobach said. "Since it is common property of all students, it should represent the views of all students. I object to using the Yard as a tool for carrying a message that all students may not agree with," he said...
...piece of legislation. With some hyperbole, the head of the Justice Department's criminal division, Stephen Trott, calls it "the thermonuclear device of criminal statutes." More than 15 years after it was adopted by Congress, the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act has become the most potent Mob-busting tool in the nation, blasting underworld operations from New York to California...
...fell out with the Sandinistas when the revolution was "betrayed"; many of the top military field commanders, on the other hand, served in Somoza's National Guard. Still, the contra forces are "too large and have too much support inside the country to be dismissed simply as a tool of the CIA," writes Leiken...
...file a claim of discrimination against material that depicted women "as sexual objects for domination, conquest, violation, exploitation, possession or use, through postures or positions of submission or servility or display." The aim was to eliminate the objectification of women--the portrayal of the female sex as a tool for attaining sexual satisfaction. Viewing women this way, the logic goes, encouraged the act of rape...