Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There are several reasons for punishing," Hyatt said. "One reason is deterrence. Another is justice. If an individual is paid to kill someone, the appropriate penalty for that individual is death. The appropriate punishment for a rape-murder is death. The death penalty should be a tool available to the Commonwealth to deal with murderers...
...more labor, tighter work discipline and more thrift. It was high time, Gorbachev made clear, to begin realizing those goals. In its final week, the congress rubber-stamped two separate economic outlines that bear the Gorbachev seal. Both emphasize the rebuilding of obsolete factories and concentration on machine-tool production, consumer goods and computer technology. But Gorbachev's defense of the centrally planned Soviet economy indicated that, unlike China's leaders, he is not prepared to tamper with the foundations of Marxist-Leninist theory...
...expand trade and economic interests" of the nation's industry. Deaver refuses to say exactly what he will do to earn his fee, but he has hired Doral Cooper, a former deputy trade representative in the Reagan Administration, as a lobbyist for his firm. Japanese semiconductor and machine-tool firms are also charged by the Administration with engaging in unfair trade practices. They have hired Stanton Anderson, who had served as director of economic affairs for the Administration's 1980 transition team...
...page ad, there was the poster. For more than two centuries, the U.S. has been using colorful placards and broadsides to implore the people to do the right thing, from preventing forest fires to keeping mum about military secrets during wartime. Last week 117 examples of this perennial propaganda tool, drawn by the likes of Thomas Hart Benton, Ben Shahn and Norman Rockwell, went on display at the National Archives in Washington in a new exhibition called "Uncle Sam Speaks." The show will run for a year...
...GROUPS IN American politics today come closer to Madison's definition of "faction" than political action committees (PACs). Created as a result of a federal election law reform, PACs have steadily--and ironically--mushroomed into a powerful tool for influencing legislation. And as the PACs have grown, so too have the number of congressmen who know how to transform skillfully the groups' ready and generous campaign contributions into repeated electoral victories...