Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...higher oil prices to encourage both a reduction in consumption and a sharp step-up in efforts to develop new domestic sources of crude oil. A rise in prices would be achieved in part through a removal of controls on the cost of domestic crude oil. But the main tool of the emerging Ford program would be excise taxes paid by oil companies on all natural gas and crude oil refined in the U.S. White House advocates of such a tax are persuaded that it would not actually discourage production, since companies would pass most of the increase in their...
Bernstein claims to have something new to offer in his view of musical history, a new tool for aesthetic theory: linguistics. He suggests that scientific analysis should replace the "purple prose" of most musical discussion with a whole new discipline, "musicolinguistics," and that is where his troubles begin...
...uncover that earliest stratum of Christian belief, Bultmann joined other scholars like Martin Dibelius in perfecting a research tool called form criticism, which examined the Gospels and Epistles with an eye to discerning the various stylized forms of the oral traditions behind them. Distinguishing among the oral traditions would help the scholar determine how faith built up the experiences of these early Christians into the formulas of what Bultmann called myths. Getting beneath those myths to the believers' experience is the famous Bultmann process of "demythologization." It reveals the kernel of existential faith that can be translated into a meaning...
Shavelson, whose credits include The Pigeon That Took Rome and The War Between Men and Women, shows himself a master of a formula that used to be standard fare on TV sitcoms: the emasculated American male who blusters and protests while remaining the tool of his pert, soft-spoken but granite-willed wife. Here he is played by Joseph Bologna, she by the adept but woefully misused Barbara Harris. Hubby coaches a hapless professional basketball team, the Phoenix Suns. He makes a good enough living, however. His suburban home is roomy, wellappointed, and chock-full of kids-three when...
...been accused of having become the tool of the Arab countries, which are able to amass sufficient votes to pass any resolution they desire...