Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Food processors became a favorite tool of American gourmets after Carl Sontheimer, 67, a portly retired electron ics engineer from Connecticut, saw them at a French housewares show in 1971. Sontheimer soon signed an agreement with the manufacturer, Robot-Coupe, to market the processors in the U.S. under the trade name Cuisinart. Food mavens like Julia Child and Craig Claiborne immediately pronounced the machine magnifique, and sales took...
...radar was designed to work in tandem with an onboard high-speed computer, and its data is displayed on nine or more separate consoles inside the plane. It is this computer phalanx, with a program that can be amended in flight, that makes the AWACS a surpassingly powerful military tool...
...degree from a major business school seems a convenient warranty of brains, energy and ambition. "If you are looking for the best people, one way to be sure of finding them is to let someone else do the screening for you," says International Harvester's chief recruiter, Kent Tool. Once the M.B.A. has been certified and hired, though, he bears a heavy burden of proof. One of the chief criticisms of M.B.A.s is that they are trained to think of themselves as bosses, and since they have a reputation for impatience and arrogance, they are closely watched...
...circle a young M.B.A. and give him an opportunity on the faster track because he has earned that. But that's only a fast track to success in middle management, not to the C.E.O.'s chair. By the time an M.B.A. reaches middle management, the M.B.A. tool kit is not as valuable. Talent rises, not M.B.A.s. And if that young M.B.A. is not successful early on, he then falls all the more precipitously, which is something people usually forget to mention...
...possible international settlement of the Afghanistan crisis. In that regard, Karmal also said that he was interested in bilateral talks with Pakistan, but, he added bitterly, "the governing military junta in Islamabad has no free will of its own." Pakistan, he said, was being used as a "tool and means of aggression against Afghanistan in an undeclared war by U.S. imperialists and Chinese hegemomsts...