Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Tutu's Kennedy School speech, he said, "What you do reverberates around the world, especially what Harvard does." As it stands now, some two years after Tutu's challenge, Harvard is still sitting on its hands. Divestment as a tool to overturn apartheid and as a symbolic affirmation of freedom should still be expected of Harvard. The University can still have an impact in the United States and South Africa, and may even be able to take a leadership role by pulling out of South Africa-linked companies...
...tradition of fandom is passed along from one generation to the next. And it's hard to refute the gospel of previous generations with only apathy as your tool. A kid who truly wants to rebel against Yankee-rooting parents won't become a tennis enthusiast--he or she will become...
...civilian government, which Noriega controls, has accused McGrath of siding with the opposition. State-run newspapers have called the archbishop, who was born in Philadelphia, a "tool of the Yankees...
Monday, 7--Surprise Presidential frontrunner Waylon T. Pickens announces his withdrawal from the race following his arraignment on manslaughter charges. Pickens, who has campaigned from his front porch, was trimming his hedges with a Stanley power tool when he inadvertently decapitated a Miami Herald reporter...
...near term, the future of the second wave will involve novel applications built with existing software technology such as frames and rules. It has already produced some unanticipated benefits. Companies have discovered, for example, that their engineers use the technology as a reasoning tool. While in the past they would tell a programmer what they wanted in the way of a computer application and hope for the best, now they are creating prototypes for their own systems, then fiddling with them until they are right...