Word: tools
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Being from Dartmouth, it should not surprise any Johns that I experienced a mild amount of ire when I read that "piece." However, that ire was quickly transformed into quandry as I started to question what kind of person (I will avoid the Hanover diminutive "tool") would write such trash. Is he (and I use the term loosely) jealous of Dartmouth's trees? the unpolluted Connecticut River? a rousing spirit so painfully strived for in bustling, "civilized," polluted Cambridge? or did he just have a lousy time up at Dartmouth and felt vindictive? It could be that...
...same issue as the editorial, the Crimson also carries a story depicting the use of Nathan Glazer's book Affirmative Discrimination as a tool of anti-busing and other seemingly reactionary forces. The book, which effectively documents some of the excesses and contradictions of affirmative action programs, should serve as a warning to those who attempt to expand the scope of these programs, such as Harvard's to an extent that they become laughable--but much worse--legitimately vulnerable to the criticisms of those who would have them dismantled altogether...
...lawyers to nine. The young attorneys (average age: 30) are able to do much of their own investigating, which lets "us go looking for trouble," says Skinner. They use such standard devices as offers of immunity or plea bargaining to get their information, and they have found a new tool: the 1970 Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes (RICO). Originally aimed at the Mafia, the laws provide for the seizure of certain of a convicted offender's assets in addition to fines and prison terms. The aim: to put the defrauders out of business as well as punish them...
...attention to what people were saying to me. And I spent plenty of time talking to them about the "problems" they brought up to me. I didn't coerce or mislead or manipulate anybody. I had my sales talk memorized just like anyone else and used it as a tool: When someone appeared interested in the books after a minute or two of talking with them, I used those parts of the talk that related to what they seemed interested in. If they didn't seem at all interested, I just left (which is, by the way, what...
...Pierce following the failure of the family coal mine in Payne Gap, Ky. Two years later, Gary found a book of diagrammed musical chords. At 15 he was playing in local bars. By 17, he was married and working in an airplane factory. He began his day at the tool crib, but would soon be scribbling song lyrics on a note pad. "I lived for the weekend, and when it came I hated to see the morning come...