Word: tooled
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...other Middle Eastern leaders. In recent years, the agency has produced several full-dress estimates on Yugoslavia. Though the scenarios were correct, says a U.S. official, "they seem to have had almost no impact on policy" -- probably because they offered only unwelcome news. Intelligence can be an important tool for decision makers, but no more than that. It is up to the politicians to make wise policy...
Nothing in Marianne Gasior's quiet life prepared her for the ordeal she has undergone in the past three years. The petite former attorney for Kennametal Inc., a Pennsylvania machine-tool maker, says she has been harassed, followed and even run off the road since she accused the company of illegally shipping metal-working equipment with military uses to Iraq. But Gasior has persisted in her whistle-blowing ways. She has now amassed evidence that, she says, threatens to expose the misdeeds of American companies as well as a vast Bush Administration cover-up of how scores of firms, some...
...Somebody got up and made this announcement that the shuttle bus was a capitalist tool...
Popkin says she joined the Young Democrats Club with the intention of turning what was then the largest organization on campus into a tool of the anti-war movement. Their main goal was to dump Johnson, and she helped send more than 400 students from Harvard and Radcliffe to work during the primaries...
Stith, 43, pastor of the 500-member Union United Methodist Church in Boston's South End, points to a potentially powerful legal tool for achieving these goals: the Community Reinvestment Act of 1977. It requires banks to make loans to low-income individuals or poor-risk companies in their own neighborhoods. It has been widely used to counter mortgage redlining and has proved a boon to the nation's 40-plus black banks...