Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Kenneth Lewis, the union local's president, insists that the workers were under no obligation to walk out. Says Lewis: "The threat of a strike is a bargaining tool. It's more meaningful than a strike itself, once the employer finds out the membership is dead serious...
...great and present in his mind to have permitted such an act. Military leaders, on the other hand, like to use the hardware they have been given. And they tend to think more in terms of power plays: a little show of force is, to them, the best tool of diplomacy...
...well within their bounds by shooting down an unarmed civilian aircraft simply because it had violated their airspace. With no evidence whatsoever, they claim (after numerous other claims were exposed as blatant lies at a special session of the U.N. General Assembly) that they believes the airliner was a tool of Western espionage. Moreover, they claim it was the West who engineered such a blatant provocation and that the United States was guilty of inciting a global wave of anti-Soviet hysteria...
Money is a critical motivating tool, but it becomes harder to use as employees move up the corporate ladder. Grove proposes a simple test. If an employee considers the absolute amount of a raise important, he is probably motivated by financial needs and will eventually be satisfied. If he is more concerned with the amount of the raise relative to what other workers are getting, he probably views money as a measuring stick of success; he will always be motivated by more money, but can never be satisfied...
...sweep into town from the cities, demanding that nothing change. Movements to create historic districts are started by ruburban newcomers who want codes to protect the small-town flavor that drew them there in the first place. But longtime residents proclaim their right to add vinyl siding and aluminum tool sheds to their property. The ruburbs, after all, are a free-fire zone, where aberrant aesthetics are one of the pleasures. It is not, after all, Sunnybrook Farm any more than it is Haight-Ashbury or The Bronx. Notes Russell Minick, a newspaper editor in Newhall, Calif...