Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rather than compete with television, Giroux said, Cambridge schools will use the medium as an educational tool. "Kids respond dramatically to electronic media. Cable television programming will be a different way to provide educational information...
...They may even have wanted him to get on television after the crash and say, "The only thing we have to fear is fear itself." Suddenly they wanted activism from a President who has always believed Government should essentially be passive. Reagan's political philosophy does not have a tool with which to repair this kind of breakdown...
Reagan gave them one version and, doing that, restored much of the nation's battered morale. "Actually, he was the Great Interpreter," says Ralph Whitehead, a public service professor at the University of Massachusetts. "People used his public persona, his resolve, his upbeat spirit, his patriotic vitality as a tool to help them make better sense of their own experience. Now Reagan's framework seems simplistic and out of date...
...technology smuggling a high priority. Through a special project called Operation Exodus, started in 1981, the agency is pursuing more than 800 cases of high-tech thievery and arms smuggling. In one recent case, Customs unraveled an alleged plot to smuggle a sophisticated side-scan sonar device, an invaluable tool for tracking submarines. Made in New Hampshire, the device was bought by a Louisiana firm and shipped to Norway, then to Japan. A Japanese company was installing the device on a Soviet fishing trawler when officials closed...
...agrees on a list of banned technology, but until recently the U.S. has enforced the guidelines much more seriously than most of its fellows. Japan, for example, has only now heightened its export scrutiny, a response to U.S. anger over the Toshiba affair, in which the company's machine-tool subsidiary sold advanced propeller-milling devices to the Soviets...