Word: tools
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Menial. One chief tool of discrimination, according to blacks, is the periodic job evaluation rating. Consistently low ratings not only keep a man from being promoted, but can lead to a general rather than an honorable discharge. Blacks believe that they are given lower ratings than whites for the same level of performance. As Harvey Peters, a black member of the Constellation's human relations council, explains: "A man can work twelve or 16 hours at work that is menial. For example, in the laundry, he may press and fold clothes for the officers. They get their clothes...
...book is at its best describing the follies committed by people and institutions that are supposed to be the epitome of reason and prudence. During the great splurge, dividend money in the hands of aggressive investors was often looked on as merely another tool to manipulate stock prices. As a source of stable income, the philosophy went, "dividends are for old ladies." The eventual losers included some of the hitherto most conservatively managed money groups in the country-including university endowment funds, whose trustees were urged to pursue "unconventional investing" by no less influential a benefactor than the president...
...broken; and the refusal to drop the breakage charge although it could not be substantiated. However, it was Prof. Paul's and my conscious policy to let the prosecution reveal the inadequacy of its own "evidence." Neither he nor I thought that legal expertise would be the most effective tool for counteracting the administration: we agreed that the procedurally and politically offensive nature of my trial could be easily exposed without over-reliance on legalistic maneuvering retrospect. It seems clear that the prosecution did in fact do an excellent job of undermining itself: we couldn't have improved...
Whatever his motives, Hughes probably timed the sale shrewdly. After shrinking for the past few years, oil exploration is again on the rise, in large part because of the gathering energy crisis. In the first seven months of 1972 the Oil Tool Division showed profits of $5.9 million, up 133% over the same period last year. Says Dietrich: "The per-share price of $28 is as good as Hughes will ever be apt to get again...
...Bronze Age artists used a curious technique; with a tool made from hard rock, possibly quartz, they hammered or scraped groups of closely spaced small holes, 1 mm. to 5 mm. in diameter. Significantly, the most painstakingly executed samples of valley craftsmanship are found in the earliest engravings. Later artists were content with fewer and larger holes, and their work became blurred and uneven...