Word: tools
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...student unions, KAMI (for college students) and KAPPI (for high schools), which had been suppressed until the Communists lost control of the campuses after the disastrous October coup. Together they quickly became a lively, powerful, incessant force against Sukarno, and Suharto quietly encouraged them. "The KAMI has become a tool for social control," he said. "I like to consider them as the Parliament in the street...
...keep up with demand despite shortages of skilled labor, many companies this year will forgo customary plantwide vacation shutdowns. Machine-tool manufacturers, jet-engine builders and even golf-club makers are swamped with orders. The stock market also perked up last week, prompting talk among analysts of a traditional summer rally. The Dow-Jones industrial average rose 17 points to 894, its biggest gain in six weeks...
...quite a speech for a onetime Trujillo functionary who had been denounced by Dominican leftists as a tool of the military and of the old Trujillo crowd. But it was only a reflection of the new times and new climate in the Dominican Republic-a climate that was growing ever mellower with the final withdrawal last week of OAS peace-keeping troops...
Using the Cairo-based "Voice of Palestine," Shukairy loosed a barrage of abuse against Hussein. The King hit back by branding Shukairy, whose P.L.O. ranks are equipped with Soviet weapons, "a tool of international Communism." Shukairy became personal. He accused the Jordan royal family of corruption, claimed that Hussein's brother Prince Mohammed operated an arms-import racket that provided Israelis with weapons. Shukairy's agents began whispering the word traitor against Hussein in Jordan's refugee camps. To a refugee population obsessed with a return to Palestine, such charges go over dangerously well...
Employees at S. S. Kresge Co. say that their founder has always "looked at money as a tool," and there is no doubt that Sebastian Spering Kresge has used dimes as crowbars. When he was in formed years ago that his variety-store chain had reached sales of $10 million, he noted that the sum was "100 million dimes." Closely watching the pennies as well, Kresge insisted that he "never spent more than 300 for lunch in my life," and admitted giving up golf out of fear of losing too many golf balls. For all his personal frugality, Kresge...