Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...endowed the Coloradan's campaign with that most precious of campaign commodities, free media. Herds of reporters began trailing after Hart. The exposure was almost entirely uncritical, with Hart emerging as a beacon of new ideas. Glenn, meanwhile, had been banging away at Mondale, depicting him as the tool of special interests. Said a Glenn aide: "We almost played blocking back for Hart on this." While Glenn tried to bowl Mondale aside, Hart slipped cleanly through the hole...
...General Board of Pensions for the United Methodist Church. The Board of Pensions supervises investment of $1.3 billion in Methodist pension funds. Mayes, the secretary of the church's Committee on Corporate and Fiduciary Responsibility, ensures that investments match the ethical principles of the church. "They are the best tool we have [to promote reform]; they are the only tools we have," he says...
Inevitably, the synthesizer's growing popularity has prompted fears that live musicians may be on their way to technological obsolescence. Although the machine was intended as a tool for composers, its talent for mimicry has made it a cost-effective, ersatz orchestra. Classical musicians, who play a largely 18th and 19th century repertory, are unlikely ever to be cashiered, but others are not so lucky. Complains Violinist Paul Shure, a California studio musician: "Synthesizers have all but ruined string players in recordings." Five years ago, Don Butterfield, a New York City tubist, played about 150 television and radio commercials...
GIVEN Khomeini's ability to use Islam as a tool for political repression and the war as a justification for national crises--political, social, or economic--the regime has managed to eliminate all its rivals. Today, the only threat to Khomeini's power comes from within the army--that gigantic military establishment built by the late Shah. For four years the Khomeini regime has used the war to keep the army out of the capital and thus avert the possibility of a military coup d'etat. In order to prevent the emergence of military heroes, it has tried to attribute...
...notion"), only to be felled moments later by a mysterious snakebite. But such effects are fitted so neatly into place, their significance so finely chiseled, that one almost hears the click of the craftsman's tool. As a result, the energies of Spencer's narrative remain muted, her conclusion equivocal. Even Lex, from whom violence might have been expected (he once pointed a pistol at a triumphant Arnie on campus), drifts off in a paralysis of frustration and despair. The final chapters echo with questions like those Arnie addresses to the Buddha...