Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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PRESSED FOR an explanation, an Army spokesman defended that service's open-fisted approach to choosing awards by saying they are "a valuable and effective leadership tool to build unit morale and esprit...
...when the people of the Ivory Tower seem to be increasingly divorced from the world without--that of the scholar who is actively involved in nuts and bolts issues. It was Eckstein who took economic forecasting from the abstract world of the classroom and made it a practical tool for the government and business. It was Eckstein who took his economic expertise directly to Washington in the early 1960's when he served as a member of the Council of Economic Advisers. It was Eckstein who founded and built up the world's largest economic forecasting firm...
...NATION, March 12]. Many people see Hart as a breath of fresh air in a country that is politically stagnant. Mondale comes across as a politician who helped give away the Panama Canal, allowed American hostages to remain captive in Iran, and used our Olympic athletes as a political tool...
DIED. Otto Eckstein, 56, staunchly liberal German-born economist, Harvard professor, member of the Council of Economic Advisers under Lyndon Johnson and longtime participant on TIME'S Board of Economists, who promoted the science of econometric forecasting into an indispensable tool of government and business planning and founded a highly successful business, Data Resources Inc., which, when sold to McGraw-Hill in 1979, made him a multimillionaire; of cancer; in Boston...
...Reagan's third-year tax cut to $750 for all individuals, close some $15 billion in tax loopholes and defer tax indexing. Wants to reduce Medicare costs by .encouraging nonhospital treatment, preventive care and use of health maintenance organizations. Emphasizes growth of the economy as a deficit-chopping tool...