Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This latest refusal to participate in the Olympics shows the desperate need for the Games to be depoliticized. Greece is the only place for the Games to be permanently seated. To have the Olympics reduced to a convenient political tool of the superpowers is a crime that all athletes should condemn...
Lord emphasizes that this is a research collection. "The main purpose of it is to determine precisely the way in which oral traditional epic was transmitted," he said, adding that it is a research tool which has not been extensively used by scholars...
...every winner's story is a happy one. Ken Proxmire was a tool grinder when, in 1977, he won $1 million on a 50? Michigan lottery ticket. After the winnings started coming in ($50,000 a year for 20 years), Proxmire moved to Fresno, Calif, where he eventually opened three sporting-goods stores specializing in pool tables. He did a brisk business until 1980, when interest rates took a sharp rise and luxury items like pool tables became less popular. His business failed and, $100,000 in debt, he filed for bankruptcy. During this financial crisis his wife left...
...Duarte: "Those who reject the political process and remain in the mountains will be nothing more than outlaws. I will not negotiate with guns on the table." So far, the guerrillas' response to Duarte's overtures has been a series of radio broadcasts denouncing him as a tool of "imperialist intervention...
...Soviets refuse to participate in, games which up until the 1970s were ignored by the world's largest country, games which were used to showcase the new fascist state in Germany in 1936, games that are plagued with amateur versus professional controversies, games that are increasingly becoming the unfortunate tool of both terrorists and irresponsible world leaders, games that are historically and hopelessly wedded to world politics are games that cannot be depoliticized...