Word: tools
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Beyond opposing specific provisions, the protest also reflects a conviction that Law 815 is a government tool aimed at weakening the student union while encouraging the "silent majority" of unorganized students. For its part, the government has made matters worse by accusing the students of seizing the campuses simply because "they are lazy and want the right to be 'eternal.' " But why do so many students fail the exams at all? A root cause is one that Law 815 ignores: overcrowding. Professors often lecture to classes of 1,500 students. Only 10% of Athens University...
...year-old widows have moved into one house to save on fuel costs. In Chicago, volunteers are knitting mittens and scarves for poor children while the city's Hull House Community Center conducts weatherizing workshops for residents of the surrounding low-income neighborhood. In East Lansing, Mich., a "community tool box" provides tools necessary for home insulation. In Little Rock, Gloria Wilson, a mother of seven and the wife of a mechanic, dreads the first winter gas bill. She does not heat the living room or dining room of her seven-room home. Even so, her heat has been...
...which would have cost a political candidate $32,000 at that hour, were rambling restatements of the students' positions. The broadcast produced front-page headlines across the country, but the substance of the interview was soon overtaken by controversy over whether NBC had let itself become a propaganda tool of the terrorists...
...historical perspective and the vision of the world which intellectuals of Eastern European communist countries are expected to uphold is "less that of the strict Marxist theory than of a more immediate justification of the actions of the men in power." This degradation of history into a pragmatic tool of general policy transforms historians into servants of the regime, "the historical front of the ruling class," he explains. This of course erases the autonomous scientific nature of history and makes it into plain and narrow ideology...
...says he witnessed the crime testified this week he saw an individual break into a white Vega, removing a tool box, 60 feet of white nylon sailing rope, a small packet resembling a wallet, and several other small objects, sources said yesterday...