Word: tools
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...authors have given investment professionals a practical tool to utilize in actual investment strategies and practices," according to the news release...
Likewise, faulty and demagogic arguments both against and in favor of capital punishment ought to be pushed aside in favor of serious consideration of the issue. In the end, in spite of the admittedly serious flaws in the process, the death penalty should be limitedly available as a tool of society in dealing with particularly egregious crimes. Many with particular, moral perspectives will disagree on this very personal and contentious issue. But we must clear the underbrush of the debate before we can effectively engage...
...enjoy democracy, liberty and human rights... should not allow their own personal happiness to numb them into forgetting the many others who are still struggling against tyranny, slavery and poverty." In an interview with TIME on Saturday, Wei said that China's leaders view human-rights concessions as a tool of diplomacy: "They are using political prisoners as hostages in international politics. It is an evil, hoodlum method...
...Children are bearing the brunt of the current economic hardship," said Philippe Heffinick, UNICEF's Baghdad representative. Unfortunately, the malnourished children are also becoming a bargaining counter and propoganda tool for Saddam Hussein. Iraqi television is dominated by images of women wailing over the bodies of eight children apparently starved to death at a Baghdad hospital...
...NASA, this is exactly the image men in space should have: Ordinary guys strapping on the tool belts, doing repair work in orbit. A seven-and-a-half-hour spacewalk ended with astronauts Winston Scott and Takao Doi manually recovering a $10 million satellite that had gone spinning out of control. With the Spartan solar observer now safely in the shuttle cargo bay, astronauts are running tests to see whether the reusable satellite can go out for another 6 to 20 hours of observation before crew members retrieve it and return to Earth. NASA TV/REUTERS...