Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...very interested in the press as a powerful tool in shaping people's views," Zeller said, adding that he hopes to function as an objective liaison between the community and The Crimson...
Fifteen years ago, however, the idea of the computer was very different. IBM's original Personal Computer was strictly a business tool. Expensive and terribly overpowered--with a whopping 64 kilobytes of RAM--few people needed the flexibility it offered...
Anxious about looking like a tool of the Israelis and fearful of going on the offensive against an armed movement that still retains significant support, Arafat has usually made only token efforts to make Hamas pay for its crimes. P.A. officials, however, were outraged by the meeting with Lipkin-Shahak. According to one, it devolved into a shouting match: "They treated Arafat like a kid in school, telling him to do this and do that." Nevertheless, the P.A. rounded up some 250 Hamas members and renewed an old, largely unenforced demand that residents turn in unlicensed firearms or face prosecution...
...condemns the "general ugliness" she says characterized the debate on gender neutrality, an issue she views as a "seemingly simple tool" to make women more comfortable on the council...
...third important tool in communicating with the press is the use of symbols, Fitzwater said. He described a visit to Russia by Reagan in which the president symbolically demonstrated his belief in freedom of religion, commerce and education by going to a church, a market and a university...