Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...ENCOURAGING that the Reagan regime has taken an interest in affirmative action, but how tragic that it has concerned itself with the wrong side of the coin. Affirmative action is not a discretionary tool to be employed at whim; rather, it represents the best available legal remedy for past and current discrimination that has severely eroded any true measure of equality in the American economy. But in both word and deed, the Reagan Administration has seriously undermined the legitimacy of affirmative action nationwide...
...Marie Marcialle, for instance, has carved out a four-year program which will give her a JD from the Law School and a Master's from the Divinity School. Concentrating on the concept of power as a legal and religious tool. Marcialle says she plans to become a public interest lawyer when she graduates and later move into politics...
Masson carefully traces this shift, chronicled in the letters Freud wrote to Fliess in the aftermath of the operation. According to Masson. "The powerful tool that Freud was discovering the psychological explanation of physical illness, was being pressed into service to exculpate his own dubious behavior [in allowing the operation] and the even more dubious behavior of his closest friend. Freud has begun to explain away his own bad conscience...
...trade sanctions as a tool of foreign policy has almost invariably stirred up political storms. When Jimmy Carter banned most grain exports to the Soviet Union after its 1979 invasion of Afghanistan, American farmers were outraged, and Ronald Reagan dropped the embargo in 1981. Next year Reagan slapped sanctions on sales of technology and equipment to the Soviets in an effort to slow construction of their natural gas pipeline to Western Europe. But American businessmen and West European governments protested so strongly that the President relented and ended the restrictions after five months...
Congressional women's rights advocates, led by Rhode Island Republican Representative Claudine Schneider, immediately announced their support for new legislation to reverse the high court. Meanwhile, most women's groups felt a major legal tool had been slapped from their grasp. If some schools now decide to cut back on non-federally funded women's programs, warned Bernice Sandier of the Association of American Colleges, "women will only be able to say, 'That's not nice instead of That's illegal...