Word: tools
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That is not a course many nations would consider. Certainly not the U.S., which not so long ago suffered through revelations about CIA plots to kill Castro. Says a State Department official: "Assassination as a tool of foreign policy is a repugnant idea to this Administration and to the American people." Quite apart from the moral caveat there is a practical reason for caution: Gaddafi's successor, wherever he is, could well be worse...
Developed under the direction of C.T.W. Consultant Joyce Hakansson and tested at Sesame Place, each disk will contain four programs and sell for $50-playable, however, only on a $1,500 Apple II computer. Hakansson warns that "computers are just another tool." But, she adds, "They are very patient and nonjudgmental. They never tell a child that he is holding up the class...
...still formidable-looking cannons of the three-masted frigate U.S.F. Constellation, one of the first warships commissioned by the infant republic in 1797. The developer looks in on several retailers in the Pratt Street complex, which houses mostly smart boutiques and specialty stores like the Chesapeake Knife and Tool and the Powder Room, which sells cosmetics. The Rouse Co. carefully screens the tenants in all its projects. At Harborplace, out of an initial 2,000 applications, only about 30 were chosen. Says Rouse: "When we have openings in our shopping centers, we look for tenants...
Walker does not regard the photographs as a diagnostic tool like the Rorschach technique, in which patients describe what they see in inkblots and the responses are scored. Nor does he use them like the Thematic Apperception Test, in which viewers reveal personality patterns by constructing stories from a series of pictures. Instead he uses the images as an emotional icebreaker: "The initial response gives me cues about where to go from there." But Canadian Psychologist Paul Lerner, an expert on the Rorschach method believes Walker's approach may very well become a new diagnostic tool for assessing personality...
Sesame Street Consultant Christopher Cerf adds even more voltage to his endorsement: "I use my processor to write, to store notes, to create, to edit, to organize. It's already paid for itself. I don't need a secretary any more. It's the most important tool writers have been given since Gutenberg created movable type...