Word: tooled
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Still, many items on the wish lists are hardly luxuries. Oregon City is asking for a new fire engine ($120,000), an air-operated rescue tool to help fire fighters pry open mangled or burning automobiles ($7,000), a hydrocarbon meter to detect the presence of explosive gases ($1,200) and a string of 40 new light poles for Main Street ($18,000 each). In its catalogue, Anaheim says it needs money even to equip centers for senior citizens and the handicapped. Reaching higher than most, the city of Reno asks for an entire $5 million community center. That item...
While club general manager William C. Zachary 86 called the Entrepreneurs Club "a tool to learn a lot about business," Gazvoda supplied a more mercenary motive. "Harvard entrepreneurs do it for cash," he said...
...Laughing the stormy, husky, brawling laughter of Youth, half-naked, sweating, proud to be Hog Butcher, Tool Maker, Stacker of Wheat, Player with Railroads and Freight Handler to the Nation...
...interview in the current issue of Business Week magazine, Watt said environmental groups are using environmental concerns "as a tool to achieve a greater objective," which he says is centralized planning and control of the society...
...Black educators argue that reliance on standardized tests distorts the mission of predominantly Black colleges for both athletes and non-athletes. They have once again-called the SAT ethnically biased and inappropriate as a tool in admissions or eligibility decisions for disadvantaged Blacks because the scores do not reflect untapped intellectual abilities or qualities such as leadership potential or personal motivation...