Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...will try to bring public pressure to bear on the University--publicity is our only tool," Charles Sullivan, executive director of the Historical Commission said before the vote. He called Harvard's pleas "ironic--the Fogg is supposed to be a repository of cultural artifacts, yet here they want to destroy a cultural artifact...
Shortly after sunset one day last week, a maintenance worker on the third level of a silo housing a 103-ft. Titan II intercontinental ballistic missile near Damascus, in the Arkansas hills north of Little Rock, dropped the socket of a wrench. The 3-lb. tool plummeted 70 ft. and punctured a fuel tank. As flammable vapors escaped, officials urged the 1,400 people living in a five-mile radius of the silo to flee. The instructions: "Don't take time to close your doors-just...
Doubts remain, though. Was AMNLAE a concessionary tool on the part of a male-dominated government to maintain post-war unity in a nation where 90 per cent of the population fought against Somoza? Are women encouraged to work solely to achieve a certain level of national productivity...
...next week, a vicious war of character assassination, borderline libel, slanderous posters, films and campaign buttons has been raging for weeks in West Germany. Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, leader of the ruling coalition of Social Democrats and Free Democrats, has been smeared as a megalomaniac, a "war Chancellor" and a "tool of Moscow." His conservative challenger, Bavaria's Minister-President Franz Josef Strauss, has been dubbed a fascist, "a danger to us all" and "a prisoner of uncontrollable emotion...
Walter G. Hibbs, 42, whose oilfield tool companies in Houston earn him more han $100,000 a year, protects part of his ncome through a second business venture that leases air compressors to oil-well operators. The oilfield equipment benefits from complex tax credit carry-forwards and depreciation, thus accumulating losses that are used to offset his leasing-company profits. Says Hibbs proudly: 'We've never paid a dime in taxes on those profits...