Word: tools
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...allows the council and its committees, "in extraordinary circumstances, by a two-thirds vote" to close any session to the public. We carelessly overlooked the clause in our initial endorsement of the document last spring but hope that that the government will remove what could be used as a tool to separate representatives from their constituents and the press. All meetings should be completely open...
...BALLOT CAN BE an amazingly blunt tool for conveying political preferences. Ronald Reagan took his party's 1980 landslide as a national endorsement of a very specific right-wing agenda, and over the next two years he and his congressional colleagues proceeded to enact a shocking amount of the 1980 Republican platform. The beating taken by conservative candidates in last week's midterm elections suggests Reagan's interpretation was too hasty and too sweeping. America two years ago now appears to have been demanding an end to four years of Democratic ineptitude, not signifying broad support for supply-side economics...
...foodstuffs and farm equipment should dominate the sessions. The U.S. delegation is heavy with firms in businesses related to agriculture, such as Cargill, Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. and International Harvester Co. Says Alfred Murrer, a council director and chairman of the Gleason Works in Rochester, N.Y., a leading machine-tool maker: "We're the only country that can help them solve their farm problems...
With these changes, the Advocate may well become much more than a place for great parties "The more people who read the magazine, the more people will want to submit things," says Longobardi it can become a tool of education that's the pinnacle-- a forum for thought, something that people will read and say 'that's what people are thinking about art and literature!'" After pauses for breath he continues. "Then, the faculty will read it avidly," he says. "And then suddenly it will be the place where if you're writing something, that's where you'll want...
Relying on a new organizational-mathematical tool with the formidable name of "renormalization group theory," Wilson in the early '70s was able to divide this seemingly insoluble problem into a number of smaller soluble ones. His esoteric work has far-ranging applications, from understanding the complex behavior of the atmosphere, which could help predict climate trends, to the workings of quarks, the elusive particles that are regarded as building blocks of matter...