Word: tools
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This approach to his subject forces Berger to specify the conditions under which impeachment is a proper tool of redress. He derives these specifications from the Constitution and from Anglo-American legal history...
Berger does not tell the story of the Johnson case to show that impeachment is too dangerous a tool to be used at all, but only to show that it is a tool to be used carefully. Throughout his book he maintains that the power to impeach is a necessary one, both to insure proper administration of office and to guarantee that the executive will not overstep his constitutional authority...
These men fear that their proudly independent agency has become, at least in the public eye, a mere tool of the White House. They privately assert that-especially after the disclosure that the FBI tapped the phones of some Government officials and newsmen for the White House-many Americans will view the FBI as a potential threat to themselves...
TUESDAY: NBC Reports. I remember at age 6 watching a television special on the Red Menace, produced during the dying days of the McCarthy wave and aired on the Armstrong Reports series, which led me to wonder seriously for some time whether my next-door neighbor was a functioning tool of the insidious and godless conspiracy to undermine my way of life. Tonight, NBC reports on "American Communism Today" and if you watch you may learn something about your next-door neighbor (especially if you live in Old Quincy which I understand is infested with fellow-travelers...
Environmentalists are convinced that high costs alone will not be enough to discourage excessive use of energy. Thus they were dismayed when President Nixon's energy message failed to stress conservation as an important tool in blunting the crisis. Nonetheless, an unlikely coalition of industrial, political and environmental leaders are all calling for measures to decrease the American appetite for energy. Senator Henry M. Jackson, who this week will introduce an energy-conservation bill in the Senate, puts it this way: "We need to ask whether we must despoil the hills in Appalachia to air-condition sealed-glass towers...