Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...videomakers tend, with suitable modifications for ego, to go along with this sort of businesslike evaluation. Simon Fields, head of the Los Angeles branch of London's Limelight Productions, has produced more than 300 videos, and says, "We have to remember we are making a sales tool. These are little commercials. It is our job to make an artist look good." Even so, the skill of the videomakers often seems secondary to the music they visualize. Says Mallet: "You can make a good video of a bad record, and it doesn't do a thing...
...Harvard administration. President Bok responded to protests last year by reissuing a statement of five years earlier. He has refused invitations to defend the University position in public. And the establishment of the Advisory Committee on Shareholder Responsibility (ACSR) in the early 1970s can only be viewed as a tool of the administration, making it appear to be initiating change. The ACSR now makes non-binding suggestions which the Corporation seldom follows...
...problems with the effort to create artificial auroras, a simulation of the northern lights. Still, at least some scientific data were salvaged by an impromptu orbital repair. Under detailed guidance from Mission Control, Parker managed to free a jammed tape recorder used to store the results of experiments. His tool: a 69? Phillips screwdriver...
...marching to show that we as students, particularly Black students, recognize the scholarship as an important recruiting tool," said Rob Harrington, financial chairman of the Black Student Alliance. "Hopefully by showing student support we will convey to the administration that everyone is interested...
...groups, including the ANC and SWAPO, have frequently--and recently--sent representatives to Harvard to urge the Harvard community to push for divestiture. Our actions are governed, therefore, not by self-righteousness, but by the constant reassurance of Black South Africans that divestiture is a most effective and desirable tool in ending the oppression of Black South Africans...