Word: tooled
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Anti-NEA invective has hit a nerve and thus proved a fund-raising tool for Senator Jesse Helms and other conservatives. Last week it became a rallying point for presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan. Assailing Tongues Untied, a PBS documentary by a gay black who received $5,000 from the NEA via two intermediate agencies, a Buchanan TV ad intoned, "This so-called art has glorified homosexuality, exploited children and perverted the image of Jesus Christ...
...These students have tried to re-tool their case and say minorities are hurt more than others," Ryan said...
...interested in how living things work and how we work," he says. "The project is also creating a developmental research tool which can be used in the next century to understand biology...
RECENT YEARS may have illustrated the futility of communism, but they have not disproven the theories of Karl Marx. Marx predicted that in a capitalistic state, government must inevitably be the tool of the bourgeoisie. And that Marx was right is certainly the first thought that comes to mind when one hears that President Bush (or, rather, president, as he can hardly be said to merit a capitalized title) is now a celebrity spokesman for Chrysler...
Part retribution for Bush's deviations from Reaganism and part fulfillment of long-held fears about his moderate Republicanism, a revolt on the Right does indeed seem to be brewing. Many conservatives find commentator-turned-candidate Buchanan an eager and capable tool to use in drawing Bush back to the Right--and perhaps evicting him from office...