Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have branched into specialties, complete with nicknames: "knuckledraggers" take care of hydraulic gear and bodywork, and "twidgets" handle sensitive avionics and other electrical gear. Mechanics now inspect as many parts as possible without removing them, and even have adapted a medical device used for colon examinations as an inspection tool...
...exports of equipment and processes to the East bloc that might be used in military applications. Under COCOM rules, Western firms cannot do business with the Soviet Union in such areas as nuclear energy, high-speed computers and aircraft components. Last week four top executives of a French machine-tool firm were arrested on charges of shipping millions of dollars' worth of sophisticated milling machinery to the Soviets in violation of COCOM regulations. Intelligence sources contended that the equipment could be used to manufacture fuselages for fighter planes and turbine blades for high-performance jet engines...
More troubling is the fact that concentrators must take two semesters of science in the Core, but need not understand calculus--a tool essential to modern economists. How can the Ec department pretend that an honors degree in the concentration is truly "honorable" if most students who receive one don't know how to take a derivative...
...needed for youngsters in any grade. "The big value is identifying kids who need help," says Ken Rustad, of the Minneapolis school district, where children who "fail" kindergarten are placed in transitional classes. Defenders of the Georgia test policy point out that the CAT is not the only tool used to determine who passes and who stays behind: the kindergarten teachers' recommendations are given equal weight. Edward F. Zigler, Sterling Professor of Psychology at Yale, nonetheless worries about the lasting impact of flunking a formalized test: "If a child at five is given the message that...
Medical tests, overused and too often inaccurate, are a costly tool in the hands of many doctors. -- A ban on fetal- tissue research...