Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...part of his overall plan to end America's post-Viet Nam timidity about asserting its interests abroad. The Republican platform specifically addressed covert operations, calling it "a capability which only the U.S. among the major powers has denied itself." Supporters argue that covert action is an essential tool, lying somewhere between a diplomatic démarche and a landing by the Marines...
Many other executives, however, have discovered that the computer is a tool of limited use. Says Horst Pohlmann, a Pratt & Whitney vice president who supervises 2,600 people: "There is no way that I have the time to feed data into that machine. I concluded that my time could be better spent with my people." Arthur Kesten, who installed his computer at home, sometimes communicates with the three big mainframe computers at the U.T. research center where he is an assistant director. But Kesten found that the device is ineffective as a home appliance. Says he: "Balancing a checkbook...
This necessarily entrusts lawmaking "to the moment-to-moment judgment of the policeman on his beat" and furnishes a tool for "harsh and discriminatory enforcement by local prosecuting officials...
...Boston Globe, The New York Times, Time and Newsweek magazines, and various television networks) have featured articles which questioned the innate intellectual abilities of Blacks and Hispanics on the basis of their performance on standardized aptitude tests. White "test authorities" have used performance on these tests as a tool for discrimination against minorities of color, especially in respect to college admissions. Under the guise of protecting America's vital intelligence standards, certain influential individuals and special interest groups have sought to use test scores as a means of limiting the number of minorities who enter the marketplace and assure...
...Administration's commitment to free trade, however, has been shaky. While the White House has withstood the demands of groups like the lumber and machine-tool industries that it raise tariffs or slow the pace of imports, it last month increased, from 4.4% to 49.4%, the duty on large Japanese motorcycles, which have captured 85% of the U.S. market. That action came after a plea for help from the Milwaukee-based Harley-Davidson Motor Co., the lone survivor of 143 companies that once made motorcycles in the U.S. The Administration will soon face a new test of its free...