Word: tools
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Before the speech, five protestors from the Spartacus Youth League (SYL) demonstrated outside the CFIA building. "UNITA is a tool of American and South African imperialism, clearly a reactionary force that, given a chance, would crush workers in Angola," Brian Mendez '75, a SYL member, said yesterday...
...Carter's opponent was former Governor Carl Sanders, a New South liberal who had the backing of the Atlanta Establishment, the city's newspapers and the black community. Carter positioned himself as a populist to the right of Sanders. For the entire campaign, "CuffLinks Carl" was derided as a tool of the moneyed interests. It was a bitter contest to determine which was the less wealthy candidate?and by any standards, Carter was well...
Malek found his wish come true in the form of a sagging tool manufacturing business in Orangeburg, South Carolina, called the Triangle Corporation. To this day Malek beams as he relates how he applied hard-nosed management techniques to turn a $1-million deficit into a $1-million profit in his few years in Orangeburg...
...executive privilege by the Nixon administration to obtain greater power while it was concurrently hiding the means of gaining that power. From the outset of the author's short-lived government experience through the Watergate stonewalling, Nixon and his boys--especially his boys, Mollenhoff suggests--utilized the tool of executive privilege out of misplaced zeal, naively blind to the processes and ethics of government. An addiction which led to their downfall...
...task of constructing a new domestic concensus on foreign policy in place of the Vietnam-shattered doctrine of limited wars, a Persian Gulf may appear as a vital tool. The restoration of that consensus necessitates what Kissinger has aptly termed a "legitimizing principle of social repression": an ideological justification which would ensure the support of the American people and Congress for an aggressive policy abroad. The language of realpolitik offers a poor basis for popular support for a corporate ideology. Hence, modern myths have been a mixture of destiny and demonology: the British "white man's burden" and the French...