Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...which liquids and semiliquids are broken down under pressures of 1 million lbs. per sq. in. This force is built up by a titanium piston that plunges back and forth within the chamber at the rate of 20,000 times each second. Cottell reasoned that so powerful a tool could be used to emulsify materials that had been too tough to be broken down by his earlier invention. Among them were oil and water...
Hughes was just indicted for stock manipulation of still another airline (TIME, Jan 7). Tinnin's book suggests that he used his investment in TWA mainly as a tax vehicle to offset the profits from his Hughes Tool Co. Most of all, the TWA-Hughes saga is a damning indictment of the legal system that serves the very rich. Indeed, Justice Burger, dissenting from the Supreme Court's 6-2 pro-Hughes decision, referred to the monstrous litigation as a 20th century version of Bleak House, in which Charles Dickens argued that the "grand principle" of the legal...
Donna has been on tour down Sough, along with a number of other Nashville performers, and a couple of weeks ago, on a gray Sunday afternoon at home in North Carolina, me and an old boy I know decided to tool out to the local fairgrounds to get just a taste of those sweet sounds...
...devout about the rule of the trade: "But first we must understand the problem." Make the unconscious conscious, burn the shadowy fantasies of your netherworld out of their holes. So to illuminate what happens in the mind in between conscious desire and conscious action. But analysis, a tool to explore the mind, Jong has somehow warped into a faith...
...using the provisional-sentencing procedure as a device to get the defendants to cooperate with investigators. "We must be concerned about a federal judge ?no matter how worthy his motives or how much we may applaud his results?using the criminal-sentencing process as a means and tool for further criminal investigation of others," contends Chesterfield Smith, president of the American Bar Association. The association's president-elect, James Fellers of Oklahoma City, much admires Sirica and his Watergate role but likens the sentencing tactic to "the torture rack and the Spanish Inquisition." Argues Law Dean Monroe Freedman...