Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...than the same amount spent on education, over 60,000 fewer than that amount spent on health care, fewer jobs still than the same amount spent on construction or mass transit. Partly due to the boom-and-bust nature of defense contracting, military spending is a much less effective tool for stimulating economic growth than that government spending which provides steady jobs...
Gene splicing is the most powerful and awesome skill acquired by man since the splitting of the atom. It is an unparalleled exploratory tool for examining, and in the process changing, the complicated machinery of heredity. If a gene of unknown function is inserted into bacteria, it can act as a probe that lets scientists see precisely what it does. By such techniques, researchers will finally speed up the formidable task of identifying, locating and analyzing every one of the more than 100,000 genes found in a human cell...
...survey, which researchers across the country use as a general data base, "is the type of tool we cannot lose without setting ourselves back for many years," Davis said this week...
Does Fuentes see Mexico's massive oil supply--which now totals a yearly income of $15 billion from exploration--as a possible tool to further the ideals of the Mexican Revolution, to create a more egalitarian and developed society? The writer sighs. It's clearly a question that's been asked before. The only way, he asserts, would be to limit exploration and exploitation...
...CETA workers, about 15% of its staff. Harrison predicts that the center will be forced to reduce sharply its day care and youth recreation programs, as well as curtail the hours of its health clinic. Howard Mclntyre, 31, earns $30 a week while learning to be a machine-tool operator in a CETA training program; he now fears that he is headed for the unemployment line. "I got laid off two years ago because I didn't have enough experience," says Mclntyre. "CETA helps you get that experience. It's a lot better than welfare...