Word: tools
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...failed technology," says Melody Moore, director of Chicago-based Citizens Against Nuclear Power. Even businessmen sympathetic to nuclear energy as a source of electric power are pessimistic about its future. "Nuclear power is well into free fall. It's beyond recovery," says John Nichols, president of Illinois Tool Works, a diversified manufacturing firm...
Transposons are pieces of DNA that move from one place to another inside a chromosome; they act as mechanisms within living cells for the rearrangement of DNA molecules, Kleckner says, calling them "nature's tool for genetic engineering...
...Soviets showed with the largest (and ostensibly secret) nuclear buildup in history during the '70s. It is also apparently not in their interest to limit Euromissiles. The INF negotiations never had a chance, since the Soviets see their interest in holding a monopoly of these weapons as a political tool over both Western and Eastern Europe. They even have begun forward deployment of SS-20s-in East Germany. However, the failure of these talks is only dangerous if the West loses its nerve as a result and weakens deterrence...
...mother and a daughter. Since I had been analyzed, I decided to use psychoanalysis as a literary vehicle between past and present. That is probably why, as Bruno Bettelheim says, it is the best over written about this subject--because it is not technical Analysis was merely a tool for me." Although Cardinal has written an account of self-discovery, she says, "analysis can be useful for some people, but not for everybody. Everyone must find his own way. There is no one solution to life...
...Forehead, "young Bobby had one ambition; to host a TV quiz show." Instead, the wayward actor--who bears a less-than-coincidental resemblance to Rep. Jack Kemp (R.N.Y.)--becomes the political pawn of Gerard V. Oxboggle, president of Glominoid Corporation. And as a conservative representative. Forehead is the tool of every right-wing cause, from maniacal weapons manufacturers to preachy Southern Senator Clancy Fumes (a.k.a. Jesse Helms). Fumes lives in righteous fear of "secular humanist liberals" and plots to replace the Supreme Court with a panel of the four TV evangelists with the top Neilsen ratings...