Word: tools
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...Mergers and takeovers have become a standard tool of corporate strategy. [They] are a very flexible set of tools," he said...
...Tenley E. Albright, an officer at the Advanced Medical Research Foundation, said preventive medicine is the most effective tool in fighting smoking. Since "nobody likes a cigarette the first time," it is important to deglamorize smoking to young adults and erect obstacles such as higher insurance bills and public smoking ordinances to discourage smoking, she said...
...bill may dampen economic activity in certain sectors. Some corporate leaders worry about the reform's repeal of the venerable 6% to 10% investment tax credit for companies that buy heavy capital goods. They fear that the repeal could make it more difficult for industries like steel and machine-tool manufacturing to compete with overseas producers. Reform advocates respond that companies will gain other advantages from lower overall corporate rates. Declares Treasury Secretary James Baker: "U.S. corporations will have the lowest tax rate of any of our major trading partners...
This leads into the second practical argument against testing. The tests are far from infallible. Shultz explained that he had no misgivings against drug-testing as opposed to polygraph-testing because "Drug-testing is a much more reliable scientific tool. It is a definitive test. It's relatively non-intrusive." True, false, false. Drug-testing is more reliable than truth-testing. The polygraph test, with an accuracy of some 50 percent is about as accurate a measure of honesty as coin-flipping. But drug tests still have a margin of error of 2-11 percent. With 1.1 million federal employees...
...trade deficit has grown, some American industries have been all but destroyed by low-cost foreign producers. Imports of leather shoes rose from 33% of the market in 1981 to 58% in 1985. Machine-tool imports have nearly doubled since 1981. Even within industries that are still dominated by American firms, foreign manufacturers have made significant gains. Example: computer imports claim 18% of the U.S. market...