Word: tools
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extreme violence of rape, whether it entails a weapon, a beating or threat of death, leaves a woman totally vulnerable. For the duration of the rape, she is no one. She is dead, simply a tool through which the rapist can show his power. In the aftermath she turns to an insensitive world with raw fear. She has been violated, her own self negated...
...attendant at the combined bus terminal motel in Manchester glances at the city's Union Leader, tool of conservative publisher William Loeb, which has Ronald Reagan splayed all over the front page. "Every day, the same thing," he says...
...candidates' major disagreements arise over money, with Rudman attacking Durkin for his acceptance of $100,000 from out-of-state labor unions during his 1974 campaign. Durkin collected another $100,000 this time around, prompting charges from Rudman that his Democratic opponent is the tool of organized labor. Rudman refuses to accept any donations from out-of-state political-action committees...
...Republican Businessman John Hiler, is working the factory gates for the blue-collar vote in a district that includes Elkhart County, where unemployment is nearly 16%. Trailing 12 points in the polls, Brademas is pouring tens of thousands of dollars into a media blitz that attacks Hiler as a tool of Big Oil because he opposes the windfall-profits tax. In Texas, House Majority Leader Jim Wright is in the toughest fight of his career against Jim Bradshaw, a former city council member in Fort Worth who has been aided by a surge in voter registration in traditionally Republican precincts...
Some pens are mightier than other pens. Last year the Supreme Court handed down an opinion that spelled harder times for thousands of publishers and their authors. In Thor Power Tool Co. vs. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, the court ruled that the company could not claim a reduced value on warehoused stock in order to lower its taxes. The accounting procedure, known as a writedown, was a standard legal loophole. Its plugging has allowed the IRS to move with its customary even heavyhandedness. "All the IRS is doing is carrying out regulations, that have been in force for many years...