Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...past few years, he has made the scale his major tool in documenting behavioral variations among newborns from different cultures. He has found, for example, that Kenyan babies are remarkably playful and well-coordinated, and Mayan infants are quieter and more alert. He saw very serene babies in China during a visit last fall...
...agency to task. Its covert operations, they said, often deviate "from avowed standards, with substantial harm to individuals and public institutions." The three Republicans on the committee all dissented, however, calling the report "a slanted and biased document that is aimed at closing down an effective and almost indispensable tool" in the fight against organized crime and political corruption...
...Harvard owns "more that $140 million in companies operating in South Africa that have not signed or have refused to comply with the Sullivan Principles." This represents more than 25% of Harvard's portfolio Further, the Sullivan Principles, denounced by Black South African leaders as purely cosmetic and a tool of the apartheid regime, do little to ameliorate the oppressive conditions in South Africa, for they affect less than I percent of South Africa's Black workers...
Government can also aid industry but protectionist quota, need not be the only tool.. Instead of mailing unclassified research reports directly to foreign embassies at every request we should at least force our competition to scramble for the information they need. Any edge at all will be a blessing incorporate America...
...waffling on issues and tries to goad him into taking a stand for or against the presidential candidacy of Jesse Jackson. Hunt, wisely, has not yet done so, since he would lose votes no matter what position he took. Helms' aim is to portray Hunt as a tool of out-of-state liberals, among them Fritz Mondale, former New York Congresswoman Bella Abzug, labor unions, gay activists and gun-control advocates...