Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...objector status. And the system of deferments for college students would be wiped out. We realize that in endorsing such a proposal, we join with the reactionaries of every stripe in this nation; we hope, though, to set forth a fresh and progressive justification for the draft as a tool for both military and social reform...
...Communists." Furthermore, she laments, "during his long march to the White House, Reagan, the hip-shooter, was often called to account. But as President, he is not." Right-wing columnists, such as William Safire, William F. Buckley and George Will, treat Reagan's likability as a useful sales tool, but seem to regard Reagan as too inattentive and superficial a student of the causes they espouse. Approval is somewhat sicklied over with condescension...
...Draft registration is being used as a prop. a tool to build militarism in general in this country," said John Lindsay '82, a member of the Radcliffe-Harvard Peace Alliance...
...people to cast off the oppressive weight they had borne so long. The theology of liberation will continue to gain popular support in the Third World and in stifling countries like Poland, where its moral rightness is combined with its practical appeal. In other words, it is a tool to fight the exploiters. What American progressive Christians must figure out how to do is to spread a liberation theology to exploiters, and that will be much harder...
...Million Tube Job. The investment RCA made in the videodisc machine and the amount it stands to lose if the discs do not catch on. The disc machine, unlike the tape, cannot copy; it can only play. It excels as a teaching tool, but RCA has marketed it for consumer entertainment, where it has fared poorly compared with tape. The bright hope is what vid whizzes call interactive discs. These can instruct the viewer in a variety of pursuits or, wired through a home computer, can let him seek specific help. On one prototype, for example, a viewer with...