Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...believe it? Meese is too sleazy a character to be elected to such a high office, you say? Well, sleaze may get a bad rap in the media, but it has worked as an effective campaign tool over the past few years...
...generation of gardeners, he says, "their parents had a quarter acre with a power mower and a hedge clipper. They have 600 sq. ft. behind a condo and 90 different kinds of plants in it." But he does not disdain those who crave his lovingly designed tools made of second-growth ash. "Serious gardeners are like serious writers, painters, dancers," he says. "For people who view gardening as a craft, buying the best tool they can get is absolutely essential...
...withdraw $15 million from a banking subsidiary of PNC. Reason: W. Craig McClelland, executive vice president of IP, sits on PNC's board. Such strong-arm tactics give hope to William Meserve, the president of the United Paperworkers' Local 14 in Jay. Meserve calls Rogers "the only effective tool we could bring in" and "probably the workingman's biggest friend...
...Hyundai Construction Co. was kidnaped in Seoul. Two company executives were eventually arrested and charged with paying thugs $27,000 to kidnap the man to force him to resign from the company. In the meantime, 3,500 workers, demanding 50% pay hikes, had walked out at two machine-tool factories owned by Hyundai Precision and Industry Co. On May 27, strikers at one of the plants seized a five-story office building and took Hyundai Precision Chairman Chong Mong Ku and ten other executives hostage. The managers were released June 1 as police prepared to intervene...
...rhetoric, the piece is successful, making Habermas out to be a man obsessed by obtaining a place in history and using philosophy as a tool to achieve fame. But as for engaging a fellow thinker's ideas and trying to come to grips with them, it fails--largely for lack of trying...