Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...grand jury is often used as a tool to get information that has subpoena power," Kaye said. Twelve grand jurors out of a possible 23 are needed to "move the case forward" or issue an indictment, Kaye said...
...grand jury is often used as a tool to get information that has subpoena power," Kaye said. Twelve grand jurors out of a possible 23 are needed to "move the case forward" or issue an indictment, Kaye said...
...rivalry with the Soviet Union heated up, Von Neumann became a strategic adviser on defense policy. He was appointed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower to the Atomic Energy Commission, which oversaw the postwar buildup of the U.S. nuclear arsenal. Von Neumann's game theory became a tool to analyze the unthinkable--global nuclear war--and led to the doctrine of "mutually assured destruction," which would shape U.S. strategy for the next two decades. Von Neumann also became an icon of the cold war. Disabled with pancreatic cancer, he stoically continued to attend AEC meetings until his death...
...Wright brothers gave us a tool, but it was up to individuals and nations to put it to use, and use it we have. The airplane revolutionized both peace and war. It brought families together: once, when a child or other close relatives left the old country for America, family and friends mourned for someone they would never see again. Today, the grandchild of that immigrant can return again and again across a vast ocean in just half a turn of the clock. But the airplane also helped tear families apart, by making international warfare an effortless reality...
...there. Her critique of an early Watson and Crick theory had sent them back to the drawing board, and her notebooks show her working toward the solution until they found it; she had narrowed the structure down to some sort of double helix. But she never employed a key tool--the big 3-D molecular models that Watson and Crick were fiddling with at Cambridge...