Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...challenging these countries are their underfed, underemployed and uneducated lower classes, and that the prodigal expenditures on weapons exhaust the already scarce means to buy agricultural machines, create new job opportunities and build schools, it is quite reasonable to anticipate situations in which the gun will be the only tool available to work on the problems...
Such conditions demand that America's relationship with Israel be examined more critically. Even before the establishment of the State of Israel. Zionist leaders consciously conceived of Israel as a tool of European, and inter American, imperialist powers. Theodore Herzl, founder of the Zionist movement, wrote in his diary. "If His Majesty the Sultan were to give us Palestine, we could in return undertake the complete management of the finances of Turkey. We would form there a part of a wall of defense of Europe in Asia, an outpost of civilization against barbarism. We would as a neutral state, remain...
Discounting, retailing's traditional tool for cutting prices, is spreading even to banks, where reductions on consumer-loan interest rates are running as much as 10%. Some businesses are lowering prices by offering stripped-down versions of standard products and selling them for less money, often with impressive results. Miami's Deltona Corp., a major builder of Florida retirement houses, tripled sales in January over the previous year by introducing a line of houses starting at $17,800; such once standard features as carports and fancy lighting fixtures are now offered as extra-cost options. Except for Chrysler...
...flew it only once, for about 60 seconds back in 1947. After that, the giant Spruce Goose flying boat, designed by Industrialist Howard Hughes, never again took to the air. The eight-engine wooden plane, built by the Hughes Tool Co. and a Government defense agency, was obsolescent even before its one brief hop. Last week the General Services Administration announced that the bird, which has been stored in Long Beach, Calif., will be carved up and its pieces displayed at the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum and other institutions...
...think the Palestinian issue is a problem," Olmert admits, but it's not the primary one. The Arab countries, who haven't been able to reconcile our existence are using the Palestinians as a tool to fight Israel Before 1967, the Arabs had the borders they say they want us to return to now. So what's the problem in their eyes if not our very existence. If they were concerned about the Palestinians, why didn't they--the richest countries in the world--do something about...