Word: tools
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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This unique tool was designed to symbolize the cooperation between the two universities in building and operating the $6.5 million machine, which is being financed by the Atomic Energy Commission. After gingerly poking at the earth, the two hoisted a shovelful over their shoulders. Most of the dirt fell on themselves...
Forbes took a gamble on the growing national discontent over big-labor brass, tagged Meyner as a tool of the state's C.I.O. bosses, hoped thereby to pick up some rank-and-file votes. He played relentlessly on Meyner's record budget (up $21 million since Meyner took office), warned New Jersey to "Get a new governor or get new taxes." For his part, Democrat Meyner continued to campaign like a man with his ears plugged. Confident that he would win, he did everything he could to avoid rocking the boat. Anxious to prove that he could...
...Central Bank, converted by Perón into a tool for direct control of the economy, reverted by an Aramburu decree to its normal function of regulating credit; deposits of private banks, taken over in 1946 by the Central Bank, will be returned...
...viewers in three million homes placing dollars in coin boxes to see a program would be so attractive that all good programs would go under this system, and substantial free entertainment would end. It is too easy to blame Madison Avenue for commercialism. The Avenue is merely the tool of the corporations which it serves. To decry commercialism is to decry the present American spirit...
...Syrian Saud would not see was Defense Minister Khaled el Azm, the man who negotiated the Syrian-Soviet army deal. Azm had once accused Saud of being a friend of Israel and a tool of imperialists, and this the King would not forgive. Azm is an example of the kind of confused Arab nationalist that the Russians are doing so well with these days. At a recent banquet greeting a Russian delegation, Azm praised his startled guests by proclaiming, "The Soviet Union has fought Communism in our country...