Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World section, Donovan worked from files sent to him by TIME correspondents, who could be no more precise about the location of the front lines than were the Arab and Israeli briefing officers in rear areas. "A map has to be continuously nourished until it becomes a useful tool," he explains, "and, like a written story, revised until it makes sense...
...solution to Britain's problems: what Wilson proudly calls the "most radical" program of nationalization of land and industry since the postwar government of Clement Atlee. The new nationalization would include land for industrial and residential development, the trucking industry, shipbuilders, parts of the drug, machine-tool and construction industries, as well as the new North Sea oil and gas development. Although the new Labor platform is popular with the rank and file, it is clearly the fuzziest scheme for economic change since George McGovern's 1972 welfare program. Roy Jenkins, Wilson's former Chancellor...
Eventually, the physical differences between the two types of lymphocytes may help scientists determine how each performs its specific duties. For now, however, recognition of the physical difference gives doctors a potential new tool in diagnosing disease. In blood samples from healthy people, about 20% of the lymphocytes are B-cells, the remainder Tcells. The percentage changes in some ill people; in most chronic lymphocytic leukemia patients, for example, the majority of the cells are B-cells, a condition that can be now determined with speed and precision...
Leontief's input-output analysis, praised by the Swedish Academy of Science for its broad range of applications, is a predictable tool that maps out the interdependence of industrial output in different types of economy...
...creates in Coils a mystical web of symbolic beings. There is Yorunomado, a figure of his imagination, which converses with Los, Blake personified. Niemonjima is the unknown desire for woman, and Mokpo is the heterosexual dogma, the "tool of social manipulation." Together these forces weave throughout Eshleman's life to create a harsh, painful poetic landscape...