Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people about the kinds of cases we're working on today [notably political corruption, white-collar fraud and organized crime] and to let people see there are women in the FBI, there are blacks in the FBI. This, we hope, would go a long way as a recruiting tool. It also is a way of telling people what they're getting for their tax dollar...
...three 1981 physics winners were cited for contributions to spectroscopy, a basic tool for studying atoms and molecules that dates back to the moment when Sir Isaac Newton passed a beam of sunlight through a prism and found that it was split into a rainbow of colors, a spectrum. Newton's successors discovered that any material heated to incandescence not only produces a spectrum but one so distinctive that it could be used like a fingerprint for identifying the substance. Astronomers soon found that the spectra of distant stars yielded all manner of information, including the star...
...culture hipped on youth, face-lifting is becoming an economic survival tool. Says Robert Stevenson, 58, a New York corporate interior designer who does not want to be forced into retirement: "If you're a dynamo but have gray hair, you won't get the job." Uplift by scalpel is not to white-collar occupations, either. A surgeon says, "It is Mr. and Mrs. America who shop at K mart are getting face-liftings." New York cosmetic surgeons report a new class of patients - policemen, sanitation workers and truckers...
...workers, they would design for the working class with the materials of the industrial age. The Bauhaus crowd rejected anything tainted by the bourgeoisie; as Wolfe tells it, they regarded bourgeois as an epithet. "To be non-bourgeois," Wolfe writes, "art must be machine-made." And so the (tool) die was cast...
There is no question that Egypt and Pakistan all have legitimate security concerns. Yet last week's pronouncements provided further proof of what has long since become an alarming and accelerating commonplace: for large and small nations alike, weapons sales have become the chief tool of diplomacy. "They are now major strands in the warp and woof of world politics," writes Foreign Policy Analyst Andrew Pierre in a forthcoming book, The Global Politics of Arms Sales...