Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that non-Angolan troops were already fighting against the MPLA, and that the Cubans were not under orders from the Soviet Union; rather, Stockwell says the Cubans were operating from a recognition that the MPLA was the only genuine anti-colonialist force in Angola. The FNLA was a tool of Zaire, and of the CIA in many ways, and UNITA was sympathetic to the Vorster regime in South Africa...
Women caused a stir when they first arrived at the submarine headquarters in Pearl Harbor. Men felt obliged to carry the women's heavy swab buckets and tool kits. But as the novelty of working with women faded, the men quit and the female sailors began lugging their own tools and filled their buckets only halfway to make them lighter...
Vance's trademark tool for efficiency is his check lists, usually scrawled on yellow legal paper. He confronts almost every meeting with a list of key questions, topics, problems, all in tight logical sequence. Andy Young recalls occasions when Vance has reached him at a party. "I'll pick up the phone and Cy will say, 'Andy, just a couple of points.' And, man, there they'll come?tick, tick, tick; one, two, three." Aides tell of meetings that Vance holds with CIA Director Stansfield Turner, who has a similar habit. "The two of them will checklist you into stupefaction...
...march guides, keeping people from overflowing from their lane, where there are no cars, into a lane of opposing traffic. At the head of the long procession is a truck equipped with loudspeakers, leading those marchers within earshot in chants like, "Allan Bakke, he's no smarter, just a tool for Jimmy Carter...
...best interest to seek out and train promising young people from oppressed groups, for where their talents are cultivated will likely affect whether oppressed people move toward reform or destruction of this social system. Minority recruitment is in the interest of oppressed people for academic training is a valuable tool for fundamental change, reform or plain survival...