Word: tooled
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Culture Minister Jacques Toubon plans to defend the new language bill in Parliament. According to Minister Toubon, "the government is turning the policy of French language into a national cause." Like a good French deconstructionist, Minister Toubon takes language very seriously: "A foreign language...often becomes a tool of domination, uniformization, a factor of social exclusion...
Being minority among minorities is rather interesting and can be amusing when people sometimes assume I am a socialist. However, overtly anti conservative comments and accusations of being tool for the oppressive white male make being a conservative Hispanic freshman a sometimes arduous experience...
...benefits program are finally made, it is proper and essential that top-level administrators make them. but these administrators owe it to Harvard's workers to take their concerns seriously. Whether they will do so remains to be seen. The advisory groups in place could either be a tool for substantive consultation, or a facade for a closed process...
...focal point of the exhibition is Constantin Brancusi's Marble Hand of Mademoiselle Pogany, a beautifully stylized and impossibly elegant sculpture which, which emphatically being "hand", proclaims with equal volume "form," "body," "tool," and so on. Its placement at the origin of the two axes of the show is entirely appropriate, because it is the most obviously ambiguous work in the room. This is not to say that the other objects in the show are easily pigeon-holed. Indeed, once put behind glass under the even light of an exhibition, even the tools used for installing the show take...
...whole campaign around legislation is more important than whether you win," she said. "[Campaigns] are the best educational tool we have. You get the media involved and the community involved. You're getting your issue out in the public...