Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...proceeds of a 1972 literary prize to a small left-wing group in Venezuela. But the author refuses to be categorized. "I have never belonged to a Communist Party," he says, "and my only weapon is my typewriter." That weapon has proved to be a formidable capitalist tool. Solitude alone has 10 million copies in print in 32 languages, and has opened publishers' doors for many more Latin American authors. García Márquez recently deserted his U.S. publisher of six books, Harper & Row, for a more lucrative royalty-and-rights deal with Knopf. His latest novel...
Students doing paper on shrimp aquacultures, the aseptic puckering of milk, or the effects of the fast tool industry on lower-income families run get about it two ways. They an either spend their weekends in the Widener Library reference room or pay an average of 520 to 525 to use the Harvard date base search system...
...surprisingly, South Africa is a police state. The task of keeping over 25 million people in a permanent state of powerlessness, combined with the effort required to occupy an outside country, makes military force the chief government tool and the central feature of South African life. As Gen W. Black, Director-General of the South African Defense Forces put it. "We already exist in political, economic, ideological and military circumstances usually associated with a state of war." The country imprisons a higher percentage of its population than any other nation, including the Soviet Union Military spending increased by $450 million...
...true, why not ban all noise until lunch time. Or forbid the pint-sized calteria muggers and pre-pubsecent drug pushers from even speaking while on school property. This ought to whip the little troublemakers into shape. Meanwhile religious devotion becomes trivialized when portrayed as a principal's tool for maintaining discipline...
...large. Most people, for example, know little about sexual harassment in Harvard classrooms, and tend to underestimate its importance. But this does not make RUS's mission any less crucial. If a suitable substitute ever emerges perhaps a referendum would be more palatable, but now, it seems a blunt tool to stamp out a University Hall gadfly...