Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...stubborn on other scientific issues. As he admitted in his later years: "I have become an obstinate heretic in the eyes of my colleagues. In Princeton, they consider me an old fool." He had earned this new reputation by his continued objections to what had become the basic conceptual tool for studying atomic structure: quantum mechanics, a statistical way of looking at the atom that Einstein himself had helped develop by using Planck's quanta to explain the nature of light...
...publishers, he expressed the hope that China eventually will rival in. oil exports the members of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries. To develop its vast oil reserves, China will first need U.S. drilling equipment and technology. Teng got a look at both after breakfast at the Hughes Tool Co., where he finished the Houston leg of his trip by touring two dark, noisy and almost fully automated plants...
...peasants in Moras En Valloire have little to look forward to but more work. The only respite from the toil comes with death--all the peasant's life he is little more than a tool, bobbing up and down the rows, pulling the weeds or picking the fruit. For me it was an adventure. albeit not always a very exciting one. For them it is the only life they have ever known--and the only life they will ever know...
Judges eventually found in the 14th their greatest tool of judicial review, but not for the reasons intended by the amendment's drafters. At the beginning of the 20th century, the 14th was used principally to protect property, not the disadvantaged. The court protected business from government regulation, thwarted unionization and struck down minimum-wage and maximum-hour laws. That trend began to fade only in the late 1930s, after F.D.R. threatened to "pack" the court with liberals to get his New Deal through...
...such a charge--like many students have--by finding worthwhile causes such as the South Africa anti-apartheid movement or equal rights for women. The Crimson and a select group of others decided to identify with and fight for a dead issue. The CRR as an administration's tool to harass students with unpopular political leanings is no longer an issue, ladies and gentlemen. Times have changed...