Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Reducing every progressive cause to the "PC" epithet is a powerful conservative tool. It makes people uncomfortable about expressing liberal ideas, shuts off reasonable debate with an unanswerable charge and erases serious social problems by suggesting that they are fictitious products of some radical leftist agenda...
...only would it catalogue women's groups at the College, but also in all the University's graduate schools and in the Boston area, they said. The system will also serve as a formal networking tool--listing tutors, graduate students and professors who are researching women's issues...
...million acres left unfarmed, $642 million in net losses and layoffs of thousands of farm workers. "This is the worst drought most of us can remember," says Bob Vice, president of the 85,000-member California Farm Bureau Federation. "You can't raise crops unless you have tools, and water is the most important tool...
...among the 846 skilled-crafts employees. Robinson and two other women testified that they endured a barrage of comments from their male peers, perhaps the mildest of which was "I'd like to get in bed with that." The offending photos, many of which came from calendars provided by tool-supply companies, included a nude woman bending over with her buttocks and genitals exposed, a nude female torso with USDA CHOICE written on it and a dart board that displayed a drawing of a woman's breast, with her nipple as the bull...
There are other compelling explanations for Washington's denials. An explicit U.S. threat to kill Saddam might encourage terrorist attacks on U.S. targets, including President Bush, and might subject allied POWs to even worse treatment by Iraq. It could conceivably make assassination a more acceptable political tool. Most important, if the allies are seen to have slain Saddam on purpose, they will make him a martyr among many Arabs. Washington's hope, and it is probably an unrealistic one, is that if Saddam dies "incidentally" in a raid, his canonization can be avoided...