Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...first, Western seismologists suspected that the change in velocity was peculiar to the geology of Central Asia: it seemed unlikely that the phenomenon could be used as a predicting tool in other quake-prone areas. Yash Aggarwal, a 30-year-old graduate student of Indian descent at Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, did not share the skepticism. As part of his doctoral work, he decided to study the seismic records of the swarms of microquakes that had occurred during 1971 in the Blue Mountain lake region of New York's Adirondack Mountains. Aggarwal's hunch...
...federal judge moved to enter a default judgment against him for refusing to appear in court, in 1970 a federal district court awarded TWA $145 million in damages and in 1971 an appeals court affirmed the award. Last year Hughes sold the oil-drilling-equipment end of the Hughes Tool Co. for about $150 million-a move widely interpreted as a way of raising cash...
...owned nearly 80% of TWA and made all of its major decisions. TWA charged in the suit that when jet aircraft were first brought into commercial use in 1958, Hughes deliberately procrastinated in securing them for the airline. He eventually had the line lease jets from his Hughes Tool Co. before buying its own, an arrangement that TWA lawyers said benefited the tool company more than TWA. Hughes Tool Co. had large cash reserves at the time, but by buying jets, leasing them to the airline and depreciating them against profits, Hughes Tool could shelter much of its earnings from...
Without an organized and knowledgeable group pushing for the public interest, the industry is going to make the key decisions, and the Commission is going to wind up as a rubber stamp. Like many other regulative bodies, the Mass Cable Commission will end up a tool of whatever special interest pushes the hardest...
...some back way, and call him on a two-way radio to come out." He recalls other difficulties: the scene of Redford riding through the Crow burial ground was shot in a driving snowstorm with barely enough light for the cameras; for a shot of Redford chipping a stone tool by the side of a lake at down, the crew had to set up at three in the morning and do the shooting in tea minutes...