Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Computers are a very flexible and accessible tool for students," O'Keeffe said...
Unemployment, homelessness and hunger remain serious problems in cities. The national economic recovery has not closed the employment and income gap for minority youth and displaced workers regardless of race. Federal aid is the tool with which cities can address such problems. Unless the mayors overcome partisanship and stand together, and this may mean open and public disagreement with Mr. Reagan, the chances are that federal aid to cities will be an early victim in next spring's gun vs. butter (or even margarine...
...spent $75,000 to find the wreck, and will spend a million more to complete the salvage. The payoff: $5 million to perhaps $500 million, of which Delaware will claim 25%. About $50,000 of the salvor's initial investment went for one indispensable tool: side-scanning sonar of the type used by U.S. Navy ships searching for Korean Air Lines Flight 007 in the Sea of Japan last year. Mounted in a torpedo-shaped housing, the side-scanner emits pulses horizontally as well as vertically. It is towed behind a search ship, which methodically crisscrosses a designated area...
...mind, the union president may hope that a prolonged strike will give rise to doubts about Prime Minister Thatcher's ability to rule, and bring down her government. In a democracy, where people are supposed to choose their governors through the ballot box, a strike is a dubious political tool...
...hatchet work has been delegated to Bush. He pointedly told voters that a leading Democrat, Mondale's primary opponent Colorado Senator Gary Hart, referred to the Carter Administration's handling of the Iran hostage crisis as "our days of shame." Bush also swiped at Mondale as the tool of "special interests" who is "asking the working people to pay off his billion-dollar promises...