Word: tools
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Others, though, maintain that Jackson, the most successful black presidential candidate ever, is more substance than style, and that his charisma has been a powerful tool in drawing attention to issues of race and to the plight of the disadvantaged...
...stands are politically rational in Texas, where hunting is part of the state's culture and owning a firearm as common as owning a pickup. But Bush's team knows that Gore and other Democrats are salivating at the prospect of painting the Governor as a tool of the gun lobby in a general election. After the Senate vote, Bush joked that if he were in office, his Vice President would have voted for the Republican version of the gun-control measures. He also defended his concealed-carry law as the kind of "reasonable" legislation that he might support...
...Instead of trying to win international support for U.S. policy, Washington began to simply announce it on a take-it-or-leave-it basis," says Dowell. "That has also led to a problem where the State Department tends to regard the U.N. secretary general as simply another tool to implement U.S. policy." To wit, Albright spokesman James Rubin's comment on Boutros-Ghali's charges: "It was always unfortunate that Mr. Boutros-Ghali did not have the skills to successfully manage the most important relationship for any secretary general, which is smooth cooperation with the United States." U.N. insiders would...
...fellow executives, betting big on cable was a radical idea. Then again, that was a time before eBay was a publicly traded company and skeptics insisted Yahoo was overvalued at $24 a share. Since then, the Internet has grown by hyperleaps, and cable-broadband looks likely to be the tool that makes it grow even faster...
...order to keep the best and brightest from simply finding another job down the block. This is especially true in the legal, finance, banking, consulting and technology industries, where top talent comes at a premium. In fact, nearly 80% of companies are using relocation assistance as a major recruiting tool, according to statistics from the Employee Relocation Council (E.R.C.) in Washington...