Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Weekend furloughs are a useful tool even for inmates serving life sentences. When a prisoner has no hope of release, he has nothing to lose. He becomes more likely to escape, act violently, and riot...
While it's tragic that Willie Horton committed his heinous crime, it's just as unfortunate that George Bush is exploiting the incident for partisan purposes. And it will be unforgivable if Bush keeps his pledge to abolish furloughs and allows this valuable correctional tool to become a casualty of his campaign demogoguery...
...staff at Hilles looks forward to the internal advantages of an automated circulation system, as delineated in your piece, but we are most excited about it being yet another tool that enhances the library's usefulness to the pedagogic process. Joseph Farara Reserves and Circulation Librarian
CONGRESS has drafted this new piece of legislation in response to public pressure that demands action on the drug crisis. Yet "responding to public pressure" does not in itself mean that congressmen are cynically using an issue as a tool to win votes. And to snidely proclaim, as the press does, that any congressional action during an election year is inherently mere political pandering makes little sense...
...Sermonette just yet. Despite audience erosion, network TV is still the most pervasive mass medium in the country and a powerful tool for advertisers. "I think we've got a long way to go before the house of cards collapses," says Larry Gerbrandt of Paul Kagan Associates. "On any given night, with any given show, they have the ability to attract a predominant share of the TV audience." Alan Gottesman, media analyst at Paine Webber, asserts, "The next thing you will hear will be the turning of the worm. There is an operating cycle of about two years in this...