Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...agrees with this assessment. "The news from China isn't exactly what's happening. The press is controlled by the government, so the government uses it as a tool...
That metaphor seemed inexact: no shots, after all, had yet been fired by either side. Even so, it seemed that brinkmanship, usually a negotiating tool among enemies, had become the dominant form of discourse between the U.S. and many of its important friends. The brandishing of threats and deadlines also marred U.S. trade relations with neighbors to the north and south. As the European row erupted, U.S. negotiators announced that they had solved -- almost -- a festering softwood-lumber dispute with Canada. Meanwhile, the Administration postponed for at least six months yet another major trade confrontation, this time with debt-laden...
Those efforts were in vain; all six patients died within a week of the accident. Nonetheless, that Gale used the technique at all reflected the growing confidence of many doctors that fetal-cell surgery could soon become an important medical tool. In the People's Republic of China, physicians have used fetal-cell implants to treat diabetics. In Sweden, researchers have performed fetal-brain-cell transplants to rid rats of Parkinson's disease, a progressive and hitherto incurable neural disorder. In the U.S. and elsewhere, fetal-cell experiments with animals have shown promise of treatments for a host of other...
Federal agents on patrol often tool around in cars once owned by drug dealers, since law-enforcement officers are permitted the use of confiscated property that has "operational value." But last week the General Accounting Office in Washington announced that it had put a stop to one rather broad interpretation of "operational value" by Drug Enforcement Administration officials in Dallas...
President Reagan often has been the darling of the news media. The media blindly and eagerly pursues its role as his propaganda tool. His policy of "limited access" allows him to maintain a distance from the press...