Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Wall Street analysts quickly saw the Pronto for what it was-a marketing tool to boost sales of SX-70 film and help Polaroid recoup the $350 million that it spent developing the SX-70 system. They predicted sales of 2 to 3 million Prontos annually, providing a hungry market for SX-70 film packs, which contain batteries to power the camera and sell at discount for about $5 each. Some analysts chided Polaroid for wasting time in descending from the unnecessarily complex SX-70 original to the simpler Pronto. Said E.F. Hutton Vice President Marvin Saffian: "If the Pronto...
...Crimson article also refers to Zaire as a United States "tool." Again this is one interpretation of the facts which may or may not be supported by all the facts. The United States has indeed funneled aid through Zaire to forces fighting the Soviet-backed Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola (MPLA). It is unclear that this by itself makes Zaire a "tool" of the United States. This eliminates the possibility that Zaire may, in fact, support U.S. objectives in Angola. Zaire has in the past been open to many influences, and it is far from clear that...
Meteorologists use something called a "discomfort index," which combines the temperature and the humidity rate, to tell us how nasty the weather is. Now Congress has hit upon a "misery index" to tell us how nasty the economic climate may be. A rather imprecise tool of the Joint Economic Committee, the index is reached simply by adding the inflation rate to the unemployment rate...
...human reason persists as the best available tool to deal with complex temporal problems. Love, intuition and spirituality help somewhat but we have gotten ourselves into an economic and social interplay of forces which requires some intellectual delicacy and foresight to keep in place. Intellectuals possess substantial powers of reason and ought to be willing to use them in the denser underbrush of a complex society instead of only in its airy reaches...
...contrary to the State Department's allegations, the MPLA is by no means a tool of Soviet diplomacy. Unlike FNLA and UNITA--both tribally based organizations--the MPLA's real concerns are for socialist development in Angola. The MPLA has already built broadly based popular institutions in the areas under its control, bringing in its wake education, health care, and participatory democracy...